A lot of musicians are super - insecure and they take forever and they obsess over the minutia and it's really stifling. It's not that the band The Black Keys is that confident, it's that we're not striving for perfection. We are just trying to have fun. None of the music that we like is perfect. It's good. And real. We just want to make real records, flaws and all.

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.

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

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

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

You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.