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

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works, right? It's like, you borrow $100,000 from a record label, so you don't make any money until you make back that money for them. In theory, they have you held hostage, so you've got to do every little stupid thing that they want you to do.

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.

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

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