Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen.

Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

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 four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.

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.

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.

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

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

Every country has it trade offs.

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

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.

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

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.

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.