I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

I don’t need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.

The bigger the show, the better I’d play. It was what I was waiting for, and I’d never get nervous.

That’s the sound we developed, and that’s how we played. It took us a while, but we found it.

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

As soon as you start analyzing something it stops.

The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album to album and still be just as good or better. I didn’t feel that we were able to do that. The Beatles were in a class by themselves.

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.

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

A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock’n’roll because of us.