Mike D

We never set out to be superstars.

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Every vote matters.

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I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.

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No Catholics in my family.

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I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.

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

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Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

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

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

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Food was always a focus for us, lyrically.

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

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If they found a way to make shooting in 240p expensive, it would be trendy.

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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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What would've been the downside of holding bin Laden accountable by our own values of justice by which our country is based…

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

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On 'Check Your Head' and 'Ill Communication,' most of the lyrics are much more, 'OK, you take that, and I'll say that'…

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In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what was happening in the world.

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

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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…

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My parents were very, very good about not separating us as kids from their adult friends. So on any given night, we'd…

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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…

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Japan is brilliant for vinyl. There's all this rare stuff that I've been looking two years for, and you walk into a…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam…

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Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women…

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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…

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For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like…

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Hopefully everybody in the audience thinks, 'That's cool. I could do that.' I don't like the thought that they say, 'I saw…

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Even though hip-hop started as a battle format, different artists appeared on each other's records or hung out in the same clubs,…

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

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

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L.A. is a town built upon segregated, individual fantasies.

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We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.

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

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

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We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.

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