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.

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.

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.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

Be at your best when your best is needed.

The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time — including life — and that doesn't mean it's special.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.