I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.

I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.

Pure, white rock 'n' roll, with no blues influence.

I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.

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.

A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.

That's the sound we developed, and that's how we played. It took us a while, but we found it.