Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.

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.

In the battle of DNAs, your DNA will always win against the DNA of your father.

No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money.

Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

My childhood lacked affection and ambience.

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period.