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

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.

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.

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 don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.

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