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.

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

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

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 like California a lot more than New York these days.

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

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

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

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

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

It’s very hard to tour.

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.

I think it would be nice to be a prince.

We’re playing at our level of ability.

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.

I used to be a hairdresser.

I won’t argue with you, but still it’s secretly turning me into a hateful person. I figure that the best revenge, though, is to leave people to their own devices, and they will make their...

I haven’t done rap… I can’t do that too well.

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.

Metallica – they’re so demonic, they’re crazy, I don’t know how they do it.

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...

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.

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.

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