If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

I'm sure as I progress the sound may get cleaner but right now, I'm still interested in having it rough but never overwhelmingly so. I consider myself an amateur pop songwriter and I want that to come through, too.

It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.

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 think it would be nice to be a prince.

The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.