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

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.

I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.

A relationship run by rules, instead of love is a relationship that is on the road to failure.

The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.

The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.

When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.

One of the things I'm best at is modeling. I find someone who is best at something I want to learn. Then I model them, and learn it myself. Then, when I've proven it to myself, I teach it to others.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.