The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.

My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

You also get so wound up playing a show that a lot of people need something to bring them down. People who don't know how to handle the situation take drugs. I didn't. I went back to my room with milk and cookies.

The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album to album and still be just as good or better. I didn't feel that we were able to do that. The Beatles were in a class by themselves.

I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.

If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.

I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.