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

I'm not a young man, and I can find intensity in a lot of different ways, sometimes without even raising my voice. When I was younger, it was all about how I need three extra sets of lungs to get enough wind to get out the thing at the screaming level I need to, because that's the way it needs to be. Now, I see that there's a whole lot of other colors on the palette.

When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.

Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.

We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.

Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor holding a gun. It's almost as if guns are harmless props used to bring out the cheekbones and jawline of the screen star.

Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.