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

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

It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.

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.

I like to do what I do in my house and I love to play shows, but I don't want to have to go out and talk to a bunch of people I don't know.

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

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.