I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.

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.

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.

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.

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

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

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.