You need a little resistance-something to fight against.

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.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

I'm usually always very happy and funny and positive. It's only when I'm tired that I get a little low energy.

Responsibility educates.

A belief is an idea around which we close our minds.

I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.

Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.

I can't believe a guy that handsome wouldn't have some impact.

There are more hackers breeding every day, and more brilliant minds are turning into hackers. Security has advanced, but so have hackers.

Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

When you buy a depressed company it's not going to go up right after you buy it, believe me.