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 had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly all over the city and I could facilitate other people to fly with me.

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

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

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.

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

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