Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.

I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.

I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

It's very hard to tour.

When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.

When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.'

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

You don’t need to be perfect

All the really successful, happy relationships that I know of, the people that are together are friends, anyways.

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

Its an eerie thing. My childhood is being washed away.

That was the perfect penalty - apart from he missed it.

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk.

The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.