The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.

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.

I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.

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

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.

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

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.