Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?

I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.

Shoe Suede Blues opened for the Monkees in the 1997 reunion tour for two shows. I went out in disguise when I played with Shoe Suede Blues.

Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!

Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Love with an open heart. Live with an open mind.

Sometimes the mind silence the heart, cause it is afraid of what it might say

But what if Oscar—” “Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?” “I was thinking what if he gets mad, but I think your way works as well.” “Then you shall make for a tasty meal.

In the end, there probably isn't much difference between being in love and acting like you're in love.

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when I said it.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.