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.

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.

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.

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

Consistency in action is an essential component of success.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.

If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.

All composite things decay. Strive diligently.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else.