Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.

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.

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

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.

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.