“I’ve always been a clown. I did comedy-variety shows and minstrel shows in high school and college. On the Village stages all you could do is throw out a few one-liners; basically you’re up there to sing and pass the basket. This opened up a whole new area that I hadn’t been able to explore so fully before. I was hoping to base further experience on that and eventually expand, but that didn’t happen, which was disappointing. But my goal was always to wend my way merrily through life, playing my little banjo and my little guitar and singing my songs.” - Peter Tork, When The Music Mattered (1984)
“Peter, the first to leave the Monkees, is writing ‘great songs,’ [Micky Dolenz] reported.
‘He lives in Venice, Calif., and is teaching French, music and history in a private school. His father was a college professor and Peter has always been very interested in education and in children.
‘The reason he quit the show, in fact, was because he was being asked to portray a character totally alien to his true identity whereas we other three played caricatures of true selves.
‘Peter is a very mellow, erudite man, and he had to play the dummy on the show — if you remember. Maybe you don’t.
‘Anyway, he was the Huntz Hall of the Monkees, and, in private life, he’s by no means that way.’” - News-Pilot, August 11, 1976
The way Luz's thank you drawing got rejected by the person it was for when she thought she finally found someone who wouldn't make fun of her for her eccentric behavior, that she is worthless..and then the drawing does get recognized, that it's beautiful and why would it get thrown away. She was finally understood (I am in shambles help-)
sometimes i feel like i'm really exaggerating their height difference when i draw them but then i have to remind myself that, no, they basically Are just Like ThatTM actually and it guts me every single time............. x'3c