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.

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

People who do not waste their life truly understand the importance of time.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura

If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years) I'd have taken better care of myself.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

Life is full of all sorts of people. You just need to know which hands to shake, which hands to hold and which hands to let go.