It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

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.

I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.

Ungodliness has always declared war on godliness.

She is a small woman with a face like a book mite

If someone begins to sing, do not maintain eye contact. The general advice given to fellow travellers is thus: leg it.

I feel like I should go out there and throw a shutout every time I pitch. If we score one [run] and I give up two, then I didn't do my job as far as I'm concerned.

God is not a watchmaker. God is a pimp.

Middleness is the very enemy of the bold.

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

I think Barack Obama is an amazing man and president. His legacy is ongoing.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.