CV - The Ramones

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

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