Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

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.

We speak the truth because we live in truth.

Friendship grows from a caring heart with sense and sensibilities.

Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.

Your pain is a divine rite of passage through which you will be reborn as a being of strength, wisdom and purpose.

When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate with Christ.

Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.

By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success.

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

I believe the general consensus is the bigger it is, the more women flock to you. I guess its a good thing mine is HUGE!