You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

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.

On getting lost in a book. Set adriftA life unknownConnections formLove is sewn

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now.

The American people aren't focused on the debates of the past. They're focused on their future. They're focused on the challenges that we're facing at home and abroad.

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

Language is the machine of the poet.

When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.