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There's songs you listen to at really heavy times, and you associate those songs with being depressed. 'English Rose' by The Jam, I can't listen to - it's just too heavy for me. 'Julia' by The Beatles, too. That popped up the other day, and I had to skip to the next song. They're both really awesome, moving songs, but I can't listen to them.

You picture yourself as being 22 always, and so it's very bizarre when you're not.

I lost my mom when I was young.

I'll be, like, the oldest rapper alive.

Being a straight white guy in his, like, early twenties - there's some sort of thing about it. A sort of privilege, a sort of anger or something. You just say some really stupid things.

Adam Yauch started the band. It's not like a thing where we could continue without him.

New York taught me everything.

Paul's Boutique' was a bust, right? That was a bummer. We didn't pause on it for a long time - we didn't go through therapy - but it was weird. And because it was a bust, we didn't go on tour.

I love being in the Beastie Boys.

I've only done karaoke twice in my life.

To me, a New Yorker is someone that has general disdain toward landlords, mass-transit authorities, electric companies, sports-team managers, NYU and its students, and anything new.

The two biggest influences of the '70s were Don Cornelius and Bruce Lee.