I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is an overall seriousness in tone that pervades 'To The 5 Boroughs.'

No Catholics in my family.

Yauch was a gifted MC.

We make all the decisions on our records... We have complete veto power.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 like the George Costanza-style wallet.

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.'

For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.

It's what happens when you've been in the game a long time. We had to grow up in a very public way.

We have not been able to tour since MCA, Adam Yauch, died.

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.

I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.

If people pay money to see you, they have to cheer. They can't boo, or else they're chumping themselves.

I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.

We do not let our music get used in commercials for commercial products.

We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.

When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.

I guess when time came to make 'To The 5 Boroughs,' we had something important to say.

It's never been our intention to sell millions of albums, but if our message touches that many people, then so be it.

What a lot of the world missed was just how caring New York became post-9/11.

We're banned from a whole lot of hotels, and we're running out of hotels we can stay in.

Food was always a focus for us, lyrically.

You can't improve what you can't measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R's, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools.

I'm not fond of kicking a man when he's down.

'Out of many, one' is the national motto, and what the Founders imagined it meant is that out of the great and celebrated differences between us comes one nation and one larger purpose.

Obama and his staff's sheer disrespect for the presidency is probably causing the Gipper to spin in his grave.

The global warming hysterics don't just offer opinions and beliefs about greenhouse gases and the like. These are people who speak as if they belong to a cult.

Respect? The people supporting illegals don't know the meaning of the word.

I've loved traveling around the country and meeting people at book signings.

Right and wrong are not relative terms. There are fundamental truths. Evil flourishes, but good men continue to battle it - and win.

Few news stories can demonstrate the stark difference between conservatism and liberalism like the George Zimmerman trial has done.

A Democrat who had been JFK's Secretary of the Navy, Connally believed that as many as 20 million Democrats would cross over to vote for Nixon because George McGovern wasn't qualified to lead the nation, particularly because of his proposals for military cutbacks.

If a natural disaster like a flock of birds or a bolt of lightning causes a plane's engines to fail, you know what should be expected? That the pilot will keep his or her wits about them and do their best to save each and every soul on board. That's precisely what Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger and the rest of his crew did.

School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'

Football: War with cleats and pads.

Success: When you make more money than the rest of us, it hurts our feelings.

For people who never tire of telling the world what a moral high ground they've taken in opposing Donald Trump, they sure don't seem to mind offering up a bellyful of gloats and taunts.

After one election comes many more.

'E pluribus unum' is perhaps the most obnoxious motto the Founders could have come up with, as far as liberals are concerned. They don't mind the e pluribus part - they love to note the things that divide and separate us. But they positively despise the unum part.