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

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.

Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life, and that was in fourth grade. We traveled to California for vacation and stayed with some friends of my parents. It was culture shock, and it was different.

I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'

I became a Christian at age 4. I turned from my wicked ways and decided to walk the straight and narrow - but seriously, I actually remember coming to the Lord then and starting my long walk with Him.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

Just because the boat rocks doesn't mean it's time to jump overboard.

The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.

I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

I have those days where I'm PMSing and bloated.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.