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.

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.

To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands.

Art like life is an open secret.

[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

My aim is to create the perfect dress!

I saw sorrow turning into clarity.