CV - The Ramones

It's ok with us. Fine. He already left - it felt weird for a day and then I thought, ok fine.

– Johnny Ramone (aka John Cummings), on the departure of founding member Dee Dee Ramone after 14 years

It was going from being in the pit, getting slammed from every direction, to playing on stage. My first gig I actually had the urge to jump into the audience, because I was so used to being there.

– CJ Ramone (aka Christopher Ward)

It was tough recording the Brain Drain album because everyone took their shit out on me. I dreaded being around them. It drove me away ... Everybody in the band had problems; girlfriend problems, money problems, mental problems.

– Dee Dee Ramone on the period when he left the Ramones, in his 2000 autobiography Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones