I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.

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.

Repent when you fail, and immediately seek God’s forgiveness and restoration. Sin breaks our fellowship with God.

Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside

Love the one who proves to you that ‘happily ever after’ is only the beginning.

If you asked everybody in a quiet room what they think, they'd say, 'What does the NCAA do really well? We run championships really well.' And yet we have this thing we don't get involved in.

What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.