My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.
Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.
I've been touring a lot, and I don't always know how to get around. Google Maps on the iPhone is pretty helpful with that.
I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.
I've always been ready to embrace what's around the corner because it might be just the thing that I need to help me grow.
We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.
I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.
Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.
I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.
I feel like I've become less of a music snob and less of a snob about a lot of things because I realize I came off as such a bad person because of that.
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.
My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.
I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.
Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
