Hopefully everybody in the audience thinks, 'That's cool. I could do that.' I don't like the thought that they say, 'I saw the Beastie Boys last night, and they're mega-stars.' I'm a lot happier when the kids who come backstage or to the hotel try to give us tapes of what they've done instead of just getting an autograph.

It's never been our intention to sell millions of albums, but if our message touches that many people, then so be it.

I guess when time came to make 'To The 5 Boroughs,' we had something important to say.

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