I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.

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.

I should have titled it "Diet Like Your Life Depended On It!" because it's about so much more than just beating Diabetes.

Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much ofwhat I love in that face.

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

Even the good guys, ' she said, 'can't win all the time.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

I think my friends wife has been banging a black guy. Because they just had a baby. And the baby had a hole in it.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

As you keep moving forward, you can stay upright even when outside forces try to pull you down.

Don't preach about meditation.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess.