We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.