The Monkees

"We may be the only group legitimately fighting the thing which most groups claim to be totally anti, and that’s establishment. I mean, we may have been the only one to have won. Because we actually did. We hadn’t seen a royalty check or anything. We were on top; we were number 1. And we finally went in ... and we said ‘you do it our way, or we quit’. And that’s all there is to it."

"I never really left. It is a part of my youth that is always active in my thought and part of my overall work as an artist."

"Here, I'm going to make you a big star ... and you don't have to pay any dues. ... For that, you're going to get no respect from your contemporaries." ... To me, that was the cruelest thing."