Quotes from Ad-Rock

I like Kanye West... he makes good music.

I don't really have long days very often.

I know that when I get down or feel alone or depressed, I make music, and it makes me happy.

The tapes we were making would jump around with different styles, just quick parts of different songs. Hip-hop to jazz to funk to whatever else. And in a way, 'Check Your Head' ended up being like one of those pause-tapes.

'The Squid and the Whale' was a really good movie.

Being a straight white guy in his, like, early twenties - there's some sort of thing about it. A sort of privilege, a sort of anger or something. You just say some really stupid things.

We were from downtown, so we were rapping in Danceteria, in these white downtown clubs, really. Nobody downtown was rapping. Nobody we knew was rapping. So we were like, 'We should do it.' We weren't making fun of it; we loved it, and we wanted to be part of it.

You have to consume Fig Newtons with either milk or an alternative milk product. It's like a conspiracy with the dairy industry. They're in cahoots.

I've fallen to make people laugh. Often.

I do like burgers, I do eat chicken - and I'm not proud of it, but I pick my nose. We all do.

I know Noah Baumbach from a long time ago. We were hanging out one night, and he asked if I wanted to be in his movie. If somebody whose stuff you really like says, 'Hey, you want to do it with me?,' you got to do it. I would like to say that I get these offers all the time, but I don't.

I'm not saying that kids today have everything, but with the Internet, it's like, you have it there, so use it! I know a bunch of kids who are into cassette tapes now. Cassette tapes suck! Why not use your iPod?

I got no business going to a club. I'm a terrible dancer. I got a bad back.

That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.

I don't use coconut enough - in food, on my body.

I feel like I have a big forehead.

It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

I own a car: a minivan. But don't tell anyone, 'cause they're gonna ask to borrow it.

Trump is kind of fascinating. I wish he was only seen in black-and-white 'cause he's like a character from the 1890s.

I'll be, like, the oldest rapper alive.

Everybody wants to be a rapper - even country musicians.

You know how there's all these rappers like Mike D and King T and Ice T and Cool C or something like that? Well, on Mayberry, on 'Andy Griffith,' they had Aunt B.

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

'Alternative facts' is really one of the better things that's come out in a long time. 'Alternative facts?' It's brilliant! Really? Alternative facts? There are two different realities?