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We're banned from a whole lot of hotels, and we're running out of hotels we can stay in.
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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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I guess when time came to make 'To The 5 Boroughs,' we had something important to say.
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When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
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If people pay money to see you, they have to cheer. They can't boo, or else they're chumping themselves.
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I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.
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London cabs always dis me. I purposefully give them a good tip because I'm trying to straighten up the image where they don't want to pick up some shady-looking, bummy kid like myself. I'm trying to teach them that if you pick up the bummy-looking kid, you still get tipped, man. But they still jerk me around.
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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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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 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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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.
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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.
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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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LCD Soundsystem - they put the drummer in front. I always thought that was cool. Because the drummer is usually the guy in the back.
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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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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 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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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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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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Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all these commuters and see every possible face of humanity and realizing that you're just the same as these other people is actually an amazingly positive thing.
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I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.
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With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.
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New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neighborhoods that don't necessarily co-exist, or they co-exist but in a much separate sense.
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What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.
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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.
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Music is more available than ever. It's up to people to figure out. Ultimately, it's up to the business to figure out what the business is, monetizing that.
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Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.
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Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us?
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I remember going to the East Village for the first time as a fifteen-year-old and going to Tompkins Square Park. That really seemed like a pretty edgy thing to do.
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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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I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.
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