It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

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.

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.

It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.