Coming From A Smaller Place

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 Used To Be Really Nervous When I Sang. Like, When I Was A Kid Starting Young, 18 And 19, And My Dad Really Had To Sort Of Push Me To Start Singing In Front Of People. Ever Since I Got Out There And Really Started Doing It, The Only Thing I've Ever Tried To Do Is Just Sort Of Is Be Myself, You Know, Never Put On A Voice. Sing Naturally.

The Modern Video Games Kind Of - They're Too Three Dimensional.

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 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.