I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.

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.

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.

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

Newspapers abound, and though they have endured decades of decline in readership and influence, they can still form impressive piles if no one takes them out to the trash.

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong.

When everything is good, maybe I think it’s the time to do something else.

Still...you turn me on

I'm into the whole skincare thing.

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.

... it doesn't matter if you can't get a cell phone signal or Wi-Fi where you are. You are always connected to Source.