"Rock and roll is dead. Rock and roll is a museum piece. It has no viability anymore. There are great rock bands today – I love the White Stripes, I love the Raconteurs. But it’s a museum piece. You’re watching the History Channel when you go to these clubs. They’re just reenacting an old sentiment. They’re channeling the ghosts of that era – the Who, the Sex Pistols, whatever. It’s been done. The rebellion’s over."
If rock and roll is dead, what’s classical music?
He laughs. "Mummified."
(New York Magazine, 10/22/07)