It's harder to put yourself in a place where you could easily be seen as a fake. But that's more interesting to 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 learning use the present moment to FOCUS on comprehension bringing the information into the flesh.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.

Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.

I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.

First day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination.

'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. I would prefer to stir-fry my own small intestines than to have continual access to a site where the entry for Klingon is longer than the entry for Latin.

As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.