The Beastie Boys Quotes
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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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I grew up with a clock radio next to my bed.
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We're kind of doing what Bob McAllister did with 'Wonderama,' which is making people realize that kids are people, too.
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We make all the decisions on our records... We have complete veto power.
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For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.
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Japan is brilliant for vinyl. There's all this rare stuff that I've been looking two years for, and you walk into a store, and you find it straight away.
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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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In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what was happening in the world.
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I would say think about the thing that makes you happiest, and do that. If it's drawing or dancing or listening to music or bowling, whatever it is that makes you happy, I would focus on that, and you'll definitely gain some confidence.
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Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.
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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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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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It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.
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On 'Check Your Head' and 'Ill Communication,' most of the lyrics are much more, 'OK, you take that, and I'll say that' - they're split up.
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Food was always a focus for us, lyrically.
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It's what happens when you've been in the game a long time. We had to grow up in a very public way.
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Every vote matters.
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You think about when you're with your friend, and you hang out with your friend. And then you go do whatever you're doing, your life. You know, and then you see your friend again. But for us, we were friends that, we would be together, and then we would go to work, which was us still again, so we were always together.
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I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.
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I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He was like my closest older brother. There's just so much that we lived through together.
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When I first became aware of music, it was probably the same way a lot of people do - even more suburban or rural people - from my older brothers playing music.
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I don't know if it's just me getting older or if it's a reflection of times changing, but it just seems to me like among most of my friends and peers, there's a lot more time being spent at home than out.
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We never thought we were musicians. We just thought we were in a band.
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Take what you're good at and give to the cause that you care most about.