Music is more available than ever. It's up to people to figure out. Ultimately, it's up to the business to figure out what the business is, monetizing that.

Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury of a little separate work space is huge - and to have the dream-sequence master bath.

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

What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

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 co-exist but in a much separate sense.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

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.