I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

When face with any problem, do not panic, but pray.

Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Recently we received an invitation that proved just that.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

In our business, just getting to 40 means something...that's why I think sometimes you have to just live in the moment. You have to enjoy life to its fullest.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.

There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.

Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.