I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.

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.

The only way to get the ending you want is to write your own story.

Locating God’s Word that describes the true picture of your future is the key that unlocks the mystery of the Word, which is called Dream.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.

You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.

The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.

After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.

In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours.