It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

I like California a lot more than New York these days.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well.

I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

I think it would be nice to be a prince.

I used to be a hairdresser.

I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to them, they gave right back to me.

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.

It's very hard to tour.

No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.

We're playing at our level of ability.

When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.

She was making great money at personal appearances.

My mom always told me, 'You're very smart; you're very funny.' She never told me, 'You're very beautiful.'

In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!

You can't save anybody.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Open is the way of Satan; many walk therein.

If you go to an ATM for a hundred dollars and it keeps spitting twenties, when would you walk away? When it wasn't spitting twenties no more. As long as you can take the money out, you'd stay there. That's what the wrestling business is like.

As an athlete and as a woman, I get my confidence from playing sports because it shifts your focus from what your body looks like to what your body can do for you. That's what we all should be doing. It shouldn't be about looking perfect.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

If I'm in a room full of intense people, I'm pretty normal. If I'm in a room full of people who aren't, maybe I'm intense.

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.

Sometimes a woman will look back on what she had, not because she wants to go there but to motivate her to do better.

We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.

'House of Style' changed my life. I literally had no experience in front of a TV camera before, and there I was taking over for Rebecca Romijn. My exposure heightened instantly.

I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.

I want to be intentional about my freedom - in choosing it, honoring it, and protecting it. One of the best feelings I know is feeling truly free.

In life there are those relationships where you really love someone but theyre just not right for you and theres a little bittersweet feel to it.

IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we'll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions.

We all try to escape pain and death while we seek what is pleasant.

Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.