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

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.

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

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

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.

Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.

We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

You know people. Most of them don’t hear anything. Those who hear - don’t listen. A few who listen - don’t understand. And those who could understand… they don’t care.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

The only shortage we have today is the shortage we have between our own two ears.

Most importantly, it´s in giving thanks.

My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change.

All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.