Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
Just performing is where I'm happiest, and gets me rid of my troubles and worries.
I played my first show when I was 17, and that was a big moment. I realized it was something I could keep doing.
Getting involved with the Boys and Girls Club helped keep me and my sister from getting in trouble.
I've been called 'the father of loud.'
I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
We all started calling ourselves 'Ramones' because it was just a fun thing to do.
Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.
Some people have style without even knowing it!
I don't want to be too harsh, but there's very little evidence for 'intelligent design' or any sort of creator.
I'm very blessed and appreciative of everything that's happened, and I'm just working hard for more opportunities to come.
I actually believe that you should not wash your jeans, ever. In Japan, they actually put them in the freezer. That kills the bacteria and makes them not smell anymore.
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.
I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.
I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you're in because, when you improvise, you're in right now. You're not in yesterday or tomorrow - you're right in the moment.
The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
I love so many styles of music.
There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
I'd say music runs in my blood. My parents are exceptionally talented singers, so even before I was born, it was a known fact to them that I'd become a singer. Thanks to my genes, I started off at the age of three and since then, music has meant everything to me.
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.
Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life.
All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.
I work well under pressure. Actually, I love pressure.
There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.
I think women are excellent social critics.
Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us?
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.
I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.
I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.