Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.

Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.

The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.

It wasn't just music in the Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music - it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different.