It's hard to be spontaneous when you have 40 people in your crew, and you're playing to 16,000 people every night, and there's giant lighting rigs, it's hard to change direction on a dime.

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.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.

Great talkers, little doers.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

my lips never know my problem they just always smile

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

Bless you, daugher of man.

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games... so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it.