I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.

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.

As is always the case, events do not conform easily to the generalizations historians produce to try to make sense of the past.

I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.

Whose gold is double with a careful hand, His cares are double.

I'm the type of human who is interested most in the truth. God gave me a healthy love for the truth.

Abortion is in violation of God-given life.

I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that.

Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.

Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.