There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

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.

Corruption in education leads to some people getting highly educated and then these people support the uneducated to rule over the illiterate masses.

There are many churches in my name and in the name of my apostles. The greatest and holiest is named after Peter

He's going to kill me. They'll find me lying on the floor, my heart burt wide open, too full of him to stay in my chest.

Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.

Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.

I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn't just be given to me.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.