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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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Ground

Bike

Zero

" Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us? "

" 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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Everybody

Doing

" 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. "

" Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way. "

Mike D

Down

Paint

" I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great. "

" 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. "

Mike D

Know

You

" Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why. "

" Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's all about how you react to that music or wine. "

" For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Mike D

Losing

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" I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what business did we having doing that at that age? "

" Real life is much stranger than fiction, man. "

" Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it. "

" LCD Soundsystem - they put the drummer in front. I always thought that was cool. Because the drummer is usually the guy in the back. "

" I'm really kind of a little bit romantic for the lost era. There's a lot of us that are - kind like James Murphy, same thing - we feel like it's this magic era that happened before us. And it wasn't even necessarily disco. "