Mike D Quotes
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Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.
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No Catholics in my family.
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When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
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All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music other kids were listening to in school. I got into punk rock and new wave, then dub and hip-hop.
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We have rocked the ozone radically, man. They could probably fix the ozone if everybody stopped what they were doing and they put some cement up there.
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The bottom line with a lot of bands that funk is being applied to is that they don't really listen to funk and aren't versed in funk. Like, you know, Gordon Lightfoot.
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Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.
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What would've been the downside of holding bin Laden accountable by our own values of justice by which our country is based on?
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We do not let our music get used in commercials for commercial products.
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I'm the first to admit that we were totally dependent on a particular place and time... for us, seeing Minor Threat at the CBGB hardcore matinee was just as necessary a force in our lives as the Treacherous Three at Club Negril or the Funky Four + One More at the Rock Lounge.
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Yauch was a gifted MC.
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I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.
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Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.
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We have not been able to tour since MCA, Adam Yauch, died.
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Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury of a little separate work space is huge - and to have the dream-sequence master bath.
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When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother.
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My parents were very, very good about not separating us as kids from their adult friends. So on any given night, we'd have, like, this kind of freak show - artists and art dealers coming over. And these are the people I feel like I learned from.
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We never set out to be superstars.
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Mr. Philippe Zdar is a little bit like the uncle of the whole Daft Punk-Phoenix-Air thing in Paris and known for being in the group Cassius. It was interesting working with Philippe.
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I remember going to the East Village for the first time as a fifteen-year-old and going to Tompkins Square Park. That really seemed like a pretty edgy thing to do.
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New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neighborhoods that don't necessarily co-exist, or they co-exist but in a much separate sense.
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I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.
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We're banned from a whole lot of hotels, and we're running out of hotels we can stay in.
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Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.