I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.
It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.
When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.
The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.
The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.
I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.
My dad played fiddle as well.
There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.
We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.
I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.
All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.
You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.
I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.
There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.
I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.
Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.
