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

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.

There's still time to change the road you're on...

It is not the success, but it is the failures that make us stronger and more resilient.

Low self-esteem is no better home to take a refuge. It does not keep you comforted from any danger

If you are old enough to feel angst about how a holiday “feels, ” you are very likely no longer in the target demographic.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.