If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

You can't change music by yourself.

I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.

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

When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.

I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.