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

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.

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.

Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

Genius is lasting 5 minutes longer than the other side

It's never over till it's over with a friend.

If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

Prayer has the power to change mountains into highways.