I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

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.

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

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.