Mike D : (5)

" Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe – things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it’s actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change. " - Mike D

" Hopefully everybody in the audience thinks, ‘That’s cool. I could do that.’ I don’t like the thought that they say, ‘I saw the Beastie Boys last night, and they’re mega-stars.’ I’m a lot happier when the kids who come backstage or to the hotel try to give us tapes of what they’ve done instead of just getting an autograph. " - Mike D

" With ‘5 Boroughs,’ we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers. " - Mike D

" It’s what happens when you’ve been in the game a long time. We had to grow up in a very public way. " - Mike D

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