Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

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.

Am I the reason you breatheOr am I the reason you cry?

I am Midnight(cats stare dumbfounded)

The inspector sat down on a stair, fired up a cigarette, and entered an immobility contest with a lizard.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. "I am not alone," he said. "Wherever we are, we are as one.

The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.