Hardcore bands were coming out with names like Urban Waste and The Mob, you know, a lot of kind of tough names. So Beastie Boys was the stupidest name we could come up with. And unfortunately, it stuck.

Nobody wants to see the old person at the club.

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

'Licensed to Ill' was like a cold, and we took so much vitamin C that we'd never get that cold again.

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.