Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.

I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

Songs aren't owned by anyone.

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

While your beliefs may change over time, the truth will not

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

I love Taco Bell. Whenever I go there I could get anything on the menu and be totally happy.

I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.