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

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.

Songs aren't owned by anyone.

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

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

There in the gap between what my eyes see and what my mind is unable to explain, I am sure the absolute truth lies, yet, I cannot grasp it.

Character is fate. Every day is training day.

While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global

From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it!

Faith in faith is faith astray.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.

The Universe is on the side of Justice

She didn't know there were things worse than selfish.