Mike D

“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.”

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

“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.'”

“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.”

“It's really hard to find a lot of things that rhyme with Michael Diamond.”

“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.”

“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?”

“Every vote matters.”

“I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.”