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

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.

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.

Through the eyes of the brave, the future makes past tense perfect sense.

I'd rather be a freak than a clone.

Hiring should be like dating. A great marriage does not happen in a 30 minutes interview.

I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.

Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.

The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

When I woke up in the morning and look in the mirror I realise that one of the reasons I don't own a handgun is, I would have shot my thighs off years ago.

People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.