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

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

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.

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.

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

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.