The name of the Slough was Despond.
Songs aren't owned by anyone.
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 kids in bands.
I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.
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.
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.
I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.
A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.
There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all.
I really think the key to a film is the chemistry of people.