I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.

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.

Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

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

I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.

I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

It's very hard to tour.

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.

When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.'

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.

The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.

Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

When I am through learning, I am through.

The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!

Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about.

I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!