I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.

If you're doing something that people want, they'll find you.

Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

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