MIKE D

I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it.

The sport of shooting is my life.

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.

For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.

Yauch was great at lacking fear.

Yauch was a gifted MC.

I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.

I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it.

When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside.

I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimism for anything, because the other option is no fun.

Honestly achieved results surpass all others.

Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury of a little separate work space is huge - and to have the dream-sequence master bath.

Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's all about how you react to that music or wine.

For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.

Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.

Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it's actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.

At the time, I was living pretty close to Ground Zero. I had to grab some necessary equipment, put it in my backpack, and flee the immediate proximity on my bike.

Food was always a focus for us, lyrically.

Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.

Music is more available than ever. It's up to people to figure out. Ultimately, it's up to the business to figure out what the business is, monetizing that.

Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all these commuters and see every possible face of humanity and realizing that you're just the same as these other people is actually an amazingly positive thing.

What would've been the downside of holding bin Laden accountable by our own values of justice by which our country is based on?