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

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

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

Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.

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.

I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.