I won't join another band again.

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.

Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners.

Maybe I'm too late to be your first. But right now, I'm preparing myself to be your last.

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

Stop rushing me. I want to take my time falling in love with you.

My will exceeds my talents.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.

In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.

I make a star's salary when I do horror, because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.