Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

A rose trapped inside a fist.

I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time... I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.

I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, "No way, man. He's just banging strippers." And I do that, but not all the time.

You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.