People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.

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.

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.

The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.

Gratitude is who you are, sans baggage.

Everything flows nothing stays still.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.

Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?