Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

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.

To be a success, intensely focus on success oriented action not on roadblocks or obstacles.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

Know my feelings about traffic laws? Cop didn't see it? I didn't do it.

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

I'm a very, very disciplined person.

I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name.