I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

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.

When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.

You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly

Always be able to kill your students

Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?

You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them.

God is living in New York, and he's a Mets fan.

Some 95 percent of all sexual contact still occurs in permanent relationships. That's an impressive number.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.