WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
Mike D:"I'm afraid of losing my luggage.I'm
afraid that when I check my luggage in at
airports and it goes along the conveyor belt,
it will be the last time I ever see it.But I'm trying
not to care about possesions so much.I don't
like the idea of being so materialistic."
FOR WHAT REASON WOULD YOU
BE WILLING TO GIVE UP SEX FOR
FIVE YEARS?
Mike D:"I think there are a lot of good reasons to give
it up."
Ad-rock:"Pah! I think there'd have to be proven
reasons before I'd start though."
Mike D:"In a way, though, I think it would be best not
to have any reasons. If you have any conditions
on it,then you're doing it to achieve a specific
thing. I've met some very jouyous people who
have renounced sexual activity. They have a
lot more energy to put into other stuff."
WHAT OR WHO HAS BEEN THE
BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT OF
YOUR LIVES?
Adrock:"No comment."
Mike D:"Hmm. I don't know."
Yauch:"The Hardy Boys."
Adrock:"The Hardy Boys? You mean their books or
their records?"
Yauch:" They made records? Actually, it was just the
first thing that came into my head. I'm just
bullshitting. This isn't serious, right? Unless you
want us to be honest."
WHO DO YOU MOST ADMIRE AND HOW
DO THEY INSPIRE YOU?
Adrock:"Wow. I would say it's probably my friends and
family who I admire and who inspire me more
than any outside forces or people. Friends and
family are the people you aspire to impress,
I think."
Yauch:"I'd say the Dalai Lama, if we're going back
to the honest thing again, Hardy Boys aside."
Mike D:"I'd say I have many numerous influences,
but, erm, I'm gonna pass on this one because
everyone will think I'm weird if I give my answer.
And, they might be right."
Adrock:"But you are weird, Mike. We're all weird."
HAVE YOU EVER HATED ANYONE.
IF SO WHY AND FOR HOW LONG?
Yauch:(Laughing) "For how long? Well, I hated
so and so for 23 minutes."
Adrock:"Yeah, I have, definintly. Of course, I've hated
people, but I don't want to name names. Why?
Because they did something personal against
me? Yeah. But, do I still hate anybody? No. Or,
maybe yes. I really, really, really dislike some
people, I guess."
Yauch:"I've been trying to avoid hatred these days.
I heard the Dalai Lama talking about it and he
was saying some interesting things about how
when you hate someone your not actually
doing anything to that other person, what you're
really doing is making yourself crazy. You're the
one that will lose sleep and won't be able to eat.
He pointed out that hatred is a completely
useless emotion. Since listening to his logic
I've been doing my best to avoid it."
WHAT'S THE WORST PSYCHOLOGICAL
TORTURE YOU CAN IMAGINE SUFFERING?
Mike:"Interviews. Doing some interviews are like
real psychological torture."
Yauch:"They can be, but it's different wherever you
go. In Germany it's like, 'Just answer ze
kwestions,do not joke around.'"
Mike:"They've had a little more tolerance for
our humour recently, but often there's no room
for joking."
Yauch:"Show uz your paperz!"
Adrock:"I like it in the British press when they ask you
really personal questions and you tell them you
don't feel like talking about it, so they make up
the answers."
DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS OR SPIRITS?
Adrock:"Yes."
Yauch:"Yes."
Mike:" Yes. But, I would hesitate to put a tick on the
ghost form because that carries so many
conotations, like scary goblins and stuff."
Yauch: (waves arms) "Wooooo.Aaarghhh."
Mike:" Yeah, stuff like that.
WHICH OF THE TWO SEXES DO YOU THINK
HAS IT EASIER, AND GIVEN THE CHOICE,
WHICH WOULD YOU PREFER TO BE?
Mike:"I have no idea. I would actually have
to be put in a woman's body to even begin to know
what it's like - and even then I might not know."
IF YOUR HOUSE WAS ON FIRE WITH
EVERYTHING YOU POSSESS IN IT, AFTER
YOUR LOVED ONES, YOU HAVE TIME TO
SAVE ONE THING,WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Adrock:"My ass."
Mike:" Your ass is already saved, Adam."
Adrock:" Oh, so you mean I have to go back in and get
something? There's no way I could carry as
many records or books as I'd want, and I don't
have any family heirlooms. There's gotta be
something,though."
Mike:"I'd like to think that I wouldn't bother, I'd like
to think there was nothing I had to go back in for
that couldn't be replaced."
Adrock:"I got it... floppy discs. I've got all my samples
on discs in one area. I could grab those real
quick. In fact, I'm gonna put a big fire-proof bag
right next to them when I get home."
Mike: "You're right, floppy discs are good, but mine
are really spread out.This may actually inspire
me to get more organized."
WHAT WOULDNT YOU DO FOR ANY
AMOUNT OF MONEY?
Yauch:"That's a long list."
Mike:"Yeah, it's a long list. But, to me it's
more like, why do anything where money
is the motivation."
Adrock:"Unless you need money."
Mike:"Of course, part of wordly exisitence is you
need money, you need to eat, you need to fulfill
that. But, then, once that's been fulfilled and
your able to look at what you're doing, then it's
not a matter of being motivated by need and..."
Yauch:"You mean things like Woodstock 3 ?"
Mike:"OK. That's a good example of what we
wouldn't do for any amount of money."
IF YOU DISCOVERED YOUR CLOSEST FRIEND WAS A CRIMINAL,WHAT WOULD YOU DO ABOUT IT?
Adrock:" I don't know, that's happened a lot of times.
What do you do if you discovered you yourself
are a criminal? It depends on what laws you
believe in."
Mike:"There are a lot of different laws in different
categories. The only way I would define it would
be by asking whether that person was actually
harming another being."
Adrock:"Or what that person has to do to make ends
meet."
Mike:" And then that opens up a whole other can of
worms and you have to figure out how best to
help them,according to what they're doing. See
nothing is that simple."
CAN YOU URINATE INFRONT OF
ANOTHER PERSON?
Mike: "Sometimes if it's really crowded and there
are lots of people about, like in a movie theatre,
it's hard for me to urinate. That's a specific
thing, at that particular moment. I don't know
if that's common among males. And it's always
really hard because you've been drinking
a tall, tall soda."
Adorck:"I can pee, but I can't poop when other people
are around. I really can't. I mean, I just don't
want to."
DO YOU HAVE A MOTTO?
Adrock:"No."
Mike:"I do. I'll say this one, but people will
think I'm crazy. This is one I've been
thinking about lately. 'May all beings
everywhere be happy and free from
suffering.' I'm just gonna throw that
out there."
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