A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

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

Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la.

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.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.

You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

('Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. 'Kashmir' is.

Miss Masters was not content with threatening to hire away his staff, oh no. First, she had to perfume it.

We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls.

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

Have you ever noticed how hard it is to find a shadow in the night? I guess that’s why so many people are so obsessed with the idea of bringing things to the light…to the clear, so to speak.

Novelist Peter de Vries like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain has suffered from the American assumption that anyone with a sense of humour is not to be taken seriously.

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.

Every generation must re-win its own freedoms.

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

The Secret of living is giving