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

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.

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.

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out, unless of course it had a very short life cycle.

Life is filled with endless opportunities.

The reason why lovers are never wary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves.

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

I don't look at the tabloids. I don't read the tabloids.

It's a heck of a lot harder to stay on top than it is to get there.