The Beastie Boys Quotes
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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 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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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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It's never been our intention to sell millions of albums, but if our message touches that many people, then so be it.
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We did make fools of ourselves, but people were into 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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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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When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside.
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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 have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.
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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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Food was always a focus for us, lyrically.
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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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For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.
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Every vote matters.
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Take what you're good at and give to the cause that you care most about.
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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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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 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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That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.
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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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To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group with two turntables. And the whole criteria of what that DJ would use had nothing to do with what type of band made a record.
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What a lot of the world missed was just how caring New York became post-9/11.