Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

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.

One of the greatest keys to happiness is learning how to accept reality while stretching forth to create a new one.

I can see the cracks in society, in people, in this world and I'd rather die before slipping into one of them.

Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.

Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.

Dieting is our last tie with asceticism.