I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.

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.

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.

What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

They say Paul Gascoigne is the new George Best but has he shagged three Miss Worlds?

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea

I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.