Mike D Quotes
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The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.
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Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.
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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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There is an overall seriousness in tone that pervades 'To The 5 Boroughs.'
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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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If it's genuinely new, when people are hearing it, they're not really gonna be comfortable because they haven't heard it a thousand times before.
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I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.
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With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.
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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.
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Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look.
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I grew up with a clock radio next to my bed.
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I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a backpack. I've had backpacks my whole life, and I'm a grown man now. I should have something better.'
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When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'
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We make all the decisions on our records... We have complete veto power.
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I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.
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I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.
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If people pay money to see you, they have to cheer. They can't boo, or else they're chumping themselves.
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I don't like the George Costanza-style wallet.
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I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.
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Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all these commuters and see every possible face of humanity and realizing that you're just the same as these other people is actually an amazingly positive thing.
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Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it's actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.
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For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.
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I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it.
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I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.