You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

Society, you're a crazy breed.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.