Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

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.

Some words build houses in your throat. and they live there, content and on fire.

When you have nothing to show up for having lived for many decades, you are likely to borrow other people’s credibility which won’t fit! Live like you!

There had been trials involving water, a time when witches were persecuted, bound, and tossed into the largest nearby body of water to see if they would sink or swim.

You don't take away my choices. You are my choice.

until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?

Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.

The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.