I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.

It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat.

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.

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

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