Dee Dee Ramone

I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

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

I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.