Quotes from Adam Yauch

I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy.

We're gonna do a Bowling for Dollars-type thing, but it'll be Breakdancing on Cardboard for Yen for the ozone layer, so it'll be called Breaking in Space.

Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.

When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.

That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.