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" I wanted to be a jockey. "
Davy Jones
Wanted
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" It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older. "
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" It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way. "
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" I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them. "
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" I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there. "
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" Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual. "
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" As far as groupies, I never saw any of them. "
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" My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment. "
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" I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say. "
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" I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet. "
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" They want to know I'm doing good, the fans do. "
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" I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania. "
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" The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out. "
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" My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960. "
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" People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?' "
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" Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans. "
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" America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that. "
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America
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Haircut
Stole
" I don't need any more awards. "
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Need
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