I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

Does anyone remember laughter?

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.

Alone I'm nothing.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

I hate cliche.

I hate wasting time.

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

I still like to get carried away - but passively.

I think I surprise myself.

I think I'm prone to panic.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?

I'm a grandfather now.

I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

I've still got a twinkle in me.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.