Well, I sort of don’t trust anybody who doesn’t like Led Zeppelin.

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.

Aspirations forms the plot of success.

When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.

I thought of him as a beautiful deer in the forest that made this world a better place simply by existing

Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance

the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.

The Simi is environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hooves