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.

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.

The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.

Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

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

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

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.