Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

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.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price

Taking control of your own creation, you can ultimately affect your future.

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

It is a little bit science project-y sometimes, and we talk about it that way.

It's hard to pay attention and stay focused, especially when there is a lot going on around you.

Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the social problems the last invention created.

The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

Separation before elevation. You have to let some people and things go so you can go to the next level.