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You Get To Bring Your Own Sound System When You Play An Arena, All The Lights And Visual Stuff, Which I Think Is Really Cool. There's Something About Those Old Arenas, Where It Feels Larger Than Life.

I'm Certainly Not Your Typical Front-man Material. Some People Love Being On Stage And Really Open Up, And I'm Sort Of The Opposite Of That. I Don't Crave The Spotlight. I'm Still Not Comfortable Even Talking On Stage.

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.

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 Character For The Song Is The One I Want To Use, Because If You've Got A Style, You're Going To Sound Like Yourself No Matter What Guitar You Play.