The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.

When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.

You've got to change your evil ways, baby, before I start loving you.

I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape.

We play happy music and we make people happy, that's why they like us

'Spoonman' wasn't written for any album. It was just written for fun.

I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.

I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.

Never try to grow up too fast, but don't linger in the child you were

I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.

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

With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.

There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself.

There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

I try to write five or six songs each year and not just in one genre.

I am a thief, I am a liar, I am George Bush and my son is an asshole.

Time, and the grand gesture of forgiveness, helps to heal old wounds.

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.

Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.

Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you’re not afraid of heights.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success

Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.

Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.

The whole point to being here, really, is to figure a way to get out.

If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want.

Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.

I have produced all kinds of music because I love all kinds of music.

Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.

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