I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.

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.

It is impossible to find peace in the world if we can't create peace within ourselves.

He's just a flash in the pants.

Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.

Subject is known by what she sees.

My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.

I don't like being shouted at.

It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison.