Ramones Music Has A Pavlovian Effect On

I Believe That One Defines Oneself By Reinvention. To Not Be Like Your Parents. To Not Be Like Your Friends. To Be Yourself. To Cut Yourself Out Of Stone.

As A Young Person, I Was On The Road Playing Music, So I Was Getting New Environments Shoved In My Face Whether I Wanted Them Or Not.

My Whole Access Into Culture Was Violent. Violence Is Something I Understand. Don't Like It, Don't Condone It, But I Sure Understand Where It Comes From.

I've Been In Iraq, And It Never Occurred To Me To Go, 'hey, This War Is Bogus,' To Some Guy Who's 24 Hours A Day Trying Not To Get Shot At Or Blown Up.

Questioning Anything And Everything, To Me, Is Punk Rock.