Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

[Justin Bieber]'s rich, right? Grammys are for music and not money. He's making a lot of money. He should be happy with that.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.

And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.