Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

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.

Because it is less structured than work leisure time leaves workaholics at a loss for what to do. Workaholics practically climb the wall when they can't work.

I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

It ain't enough to get the breaks. You gotta know how to use 'em.

Balancing the complex point of view in the edit room was mostly a matter of challenging ourselves to keep digging deeper.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

My breakfast is very important.