I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat.

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 body is not a task to be completed but a gift we receive from God himself.

He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished

Ordinary leaders move mounds, good leaders move hills, but great leaders move mountains.

It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.