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" When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before. "

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" Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes. "

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" The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches. "

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