The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.

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.

When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away...

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

Had records so stellar, they had to lock their resumes in a drawer at night, so the golden light streaming from the pages wouldn't keep them awake.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin.