The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I'm pretty shy and I've struggled with extreme stage fright in the past. So I just have to go onstage in a different head space so I'm not as self-aware.

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.

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.

I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!"

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

I think it would be nice to be a prince.

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