I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

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 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.'

Trust is easy to give but hard to keep also it's hard to achieve but easy to lose

She didn't want to talk about his nonsensical fairy stuff. "That's because you can't take me there. You're not capable of it. Because it doesn't exist.

Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real ladder.

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.