I have so many projects to work on I'm going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.

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.

What are we, Charlie's Angels?

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.

Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty.

Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.

I always tried to make a diverse album in terms of emotions and sounds.

No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.