I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

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

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

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

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 got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

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