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    All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

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    Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.

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    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.

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

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    If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.

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    I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.

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    I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!

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    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.

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    I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly all over the city and I could facilitate other people to fly with me.

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

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

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    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.

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

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    I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

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    I'm sure as I progress the sound may get cleaner but right now, I'm still interested in having it rough but never overwhelmingly so. I consider myself an amateur pop songwriter and I want that to come through, too.

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    Initially, I was very much concerned with having absolute control. But as time has gone by, I'm not. I mean, the whole first record was really just how I spent my free time: stoned and drinking coffee in my house, spending three hours on a song.

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    I think it would be nice to be a prince.

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

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

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    I used to be a hairdresser.

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    I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.

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    I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

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    I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.

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

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    Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.

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

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    The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I'm pretty shy and I've struggled with extreme stage fright in the past. So I just have to go onstage in a different head space so I'm not as self-aware.

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    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.

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    There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

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    Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

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    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.

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    Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

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    We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!