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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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" The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point? "

Davy Jones

Who

Only

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

" I'm really a clean-cut kid. "

" 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. "

Davy Jones

Love

Way

" They want to know I'm doing good, the fans do. "

" I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it. "

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

" The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year. "

" The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times. "

" I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy. "

" There's an audience for everything. "

Davy Jones

Audience

Everything

" You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary. "

" 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. "

" You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me. "

Davy Jones

You

Put

" During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it. "

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

" Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans. "

" In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me. "

Davy Jones

Office

Always

" My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960. "

" I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them. "

Davy Jones

America

Over

" I wanted to be a jockey. "

Davy Jones

Wanted

Jockey

" The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious. "

" The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career. "

" Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire of that. "

" 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. "

" I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore. "

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

" I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life. "

" Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it. "

" Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance! "