The Beastie Boys Quotes
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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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We make all the decisions on our records... We have complete veto power.
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I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.
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I grew up with a clock radio next to my bed.
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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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Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.
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Food was always a focus for us, lyrically.
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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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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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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'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.
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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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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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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.