Occupation: Musician Birth: May 14, 1979
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 t….
When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone..
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 ….
I feel like I live in my own little world, to be honest. I mean, I love my record, but I don't feel tied to it. I sort of created my own little unive….
Songs aren't owned by anyone..
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 hi….
I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it..
The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional..
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 B….
Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about..
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, i….
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….
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me..
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside..
I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best cha….
The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it..
I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will..
I'm really not worried about what fans think..
I'm sure you feel differently about writing than you did when you first started. When you get older and your brain changes, you have to figure out ho….
I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums..