It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

Poetry is more than just art, it’s like super glue to a broken heart. It can also be a light when your life seems a little dark.

One-man regimes belong to old eras

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.

I'm a firm believer in if you work hard you should play hard. So I try to keep my life as balanced as possible to keep my sanity.

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

Man, we’ve got something special. Don’t screw it up.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.