I always stayed away from the studio environment as much as possible. But I just wanted to see if I could work in one. It's not easy. Just having an engineer's assistant around is enough for me to be uncomfortable. With more than one person there in the room, it feels strange.

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.

I love him (Muse) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much . . . unless you're family.

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.