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" They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger. "
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" I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. "
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" The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.' "
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" To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'. "
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" There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations. "
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" One day I got a phone call, and Johnny and Dee Dee asked me if I wanted to join their band. I said, 'Yeah.' "
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" The thing about school is that if you're forced into learning stuff, you're not going to be into it. "
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" All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude. "
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" It was the glitter days, and the New York Dolls and Kiss would come play at the Coventry, all those bands would come in from Manhattan. "
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" When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best. "
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" Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great. "
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" When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business. "
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" Forest Hills was a middle-class neighborhood filled with snobby rich people and their screaming brats. "
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" When I was hitching, I'd be completely decked out. I used to wear this custom-made black jumpsuit, these, like, pink, knee-high platform boots, all kinds of rhinestones, lots of dangling belts and gloves. "
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" The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it. "
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" I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun. "
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" The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth. "
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" I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good. "
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