I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.
People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.
There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.
There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.
Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
I think I'm prone to panic.
I still like to get carried away - but passively.
You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?
People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.
Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
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.
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
I've still got a twinkle in me.
I hate wasting time.
