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 like California a lot more than New York these days.

It's very hard to tour.

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!"

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

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

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.