It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

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.

You're only as old as you feel.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.

I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.

They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me

We’re screwed. (Nick) Screwed blue and tattooed. (Acheron)

The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.

I always liked to make something creative.