Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach.

People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.

I record all the time.

I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there.

I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.

Well, my musicians are my friends.

I pride myself on working with great musicians.

YouTube is the hippest network, and they abuse copyright right and left.

I learned from Jehovah's Witnesses that a fatalistic view is counterproductive.

It's work to play the same songs the same way for 70 shows.