Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play.

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.

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?

I'm not trying to make something that is difficult to perform every night. It needs to proceed at the speed of that character's thought because that's the only way it's actable.

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.

When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.