We learn to beat fear by doing.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

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.

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.