My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.

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 was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.

As soon as you start analyzing something it stops

As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Intuition is the soul within the soul.

Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

I cannot teach anybody how to cook. All I can do is show them, share methods with them.

Shoot first, ask questions last. That's how these so called gangsta's last.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.