I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

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.

For most secrets are kept by these: the darkness, the silence, and the cat.

My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.

Information wants you to give me a dollar.

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.