“Mental' was faster than most Ramones songs - and faster than most song...” — Marky Ramone Quote

“Mental' was faster than most Ramones songs - and faster than most songs, period. It felt like what it was about: sitting in a hospital bed and losing your mind.”

“When you hear a band and you know it's them, then you've achieved something. For instance, The Beatles. You know it's them.”

“Basically we would go to places and we would see bands trying to sound like us opening up for us, 1-2-3-4 with the leather jackets and the jeans and the Converse sneakers, which you see everywhere now. We were very grateful and happy that we were at least laying some sort of groundwork for bands that just wanted to play music.”

“My favorite food is Indian. I love chicken vindaloo because it's so hot it cleans you out. I'm a health nut. Me and Dee Dee Ramone, when he was alive, we would eat at this Indian restaurant and we would walk out of there in the winter sweating and get frozen streaks on our hair. Icicles. That's how we knew it did its job.”

“I felt that when punk came out, it was overlooked.”

“I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.”

“Too often, hospital staff are incented by management to get work done without worrying about care, and clinicians are too often not even trained to think about care.”

“All I treat at the hospital is trauma survivors.”

“In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.”

“You should be able to choose which hospital you go to.”

“I don't know why. But I've always thought a large, metropolitan hospital was a very valiant thing.”