All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.

Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

Maybe we should all just listen to records and quit our jobs

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again.

The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.

Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.

It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

I think there has to be a recognition that, you know, there's so much at stake now, I mean, the business has changed so much and decisions are made so quickly, in nano seconds basically.

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.

I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.