Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.

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 sun rises, the sun falls, the wind blows and the birds sing no matter where you are. These are experiences that unite us all... something we can all enjoy together

When you're out in the wilderness and get back to base camp only to discover sleeping bag turndown service….that's no chocolate on the pillow

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

I hate the term 'rom-com.'

We are the change we're waiting for.