You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.

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.

If you don't trust a novelist, who are you going to trust?

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well-meaning.

The cloaked figure leaned over and I turned my head just as I heard the crack of bones.

She'd never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she'd had one handy.

I wanted to make experimental music out of pop.

I always enjoy Oslo. It's a beautiful city, especially on a cold winter day.

He's stepping up to challenge me. Anybody that challenges me, has got to get dogged out. That's my job.

In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds—that is the sole difference.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

When a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees.