As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

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.

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

No, " said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.

You know you want meI can be your mouth's delightYou don't have to work hard to impress meMy price is just rightSo join me on this rideAnd let's get cheesy all day and night - Pizza

once you're gone, you made me feel nothing as if you were my emotions and you took it away from me.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.