I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.
Scott IanEven as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.
Scott IanI'm certainly not a practicing Jew. I would never claim, 'I'm Jewish.' That's not the first and foremost thing in my mind, as far as who I am as a person.
Scott Ian