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.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

As a band, we always took a really long time to make records, so unfortunately, we got into that habit of, like, 'We'll work on it tomorrow.'

I don't want to have a real job. No one wants to have a job.

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

We work in an industry where people invent technology to avoid what we create.

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.