Quotes from Davy Jones

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

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

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?

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.

As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.

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

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

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?'

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.

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

I guess it's nice to have someone to love while you're looking for someone to love.

I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.

I wanted to be a jockey.

People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.

Ah, love. A dreadful bond! And yet, so easily severed.

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

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

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.

I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.

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

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

Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.

There's an audience for everything.

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