I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?

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.

You can never go further than your own thoughts.

Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.

My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.

When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

I've been drunk maybe five times in my life. I don't like to lose control very much.

There's a deformity in the information that the public in the United Statesis receiving. It's contained in kind of a bubble and one day this bubble will explode.

Art is a form of consciousness.