The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.

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.

Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this.

It'll make you look rugged, ' Mel says.'Because I woke up this morning, ' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness.

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

I worked with Cameron Crowe, and Id love to work with him again.

The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.

Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.