“Well, I sort of dont trust anybody who doesnt like Led Zeppelin.”

“Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.”

“That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out...”

“With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a gr...”

“I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me di...”

“The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.”