I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

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

I like California a lot more than New York these days.

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.

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 Ramones songs.

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I think it would be nice to be a prince.

I used to be a hairdresser.

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.

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

It's very hard to tour.

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.

We're playing at our level of ability.

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.

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible. You talkin' about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.

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 don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.