Davy's Quieter Side

Here is a special quote Susan Santo found from a 1993 interview on a British radio show called "Late Show with Bob Roberts". In it, Davy gives us a very revealing look at his innermost thoughts:

"I love England,...it'll be my final resting place. It's just that in America it's a different thing in regard to work. I can work year round here. I like to work. I think I get angry when I'm not working because I feel like somewhere down inside I'm not wanted. Maybe the reason I'm not working is because I'm not good enough. So I always feel sort of angry toward myself. As I say to my kids, if I don't work, nothing does. I've been working now since I was 11 years old and I did my first radio show...For a number of years after the Monkees finished, about 1971 to 1975, I was very lost. I turned my back on the success of the Monkees. I said to myself, 'I don't want to talk about it,' and I reluctantly did it and talked to radio stations and said, 'Oh yeah, the Monkees. What a great time it was! It was fun!' But I was pretending it was fun because I was like 21 to 26 years old. I was just growing up myself. And the thing about growing up, it takes such a long time! There's nothing I can't do with regard to entertaining. I've always been a bit of a feisty little guy. I tend to use words now to defend myself instead of my fists. In Manchester when you went down to the park there was always a punch after school, not always but it always seemed to find me. Now I tend to do it with words and with humor. I'm not so feisty as I used to be."

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