I love him (Muse) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much . . . unless you're family.

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.

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.

It is easy to conquer the world from the back of a horse.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.