I don't think I've aged gracefully.
I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.
I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
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.
Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.
A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.
Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.
I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!
You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.
It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
I hate cliche.
I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.
I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.
The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.
Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.
