Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

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.'

Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

This is the step up people have wanted. [Wladimir] Klitschko wants his belts back, may the best man win.

Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.

When ignorance mobilizes, it's always the free minds it destroys first.

You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,' ... I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have.

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

I'm not going to throw my state under the bus. That's never going to happen.

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.