I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

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.

I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.

You want your kids to have an opportunity. We're going to fight to give you that.

It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

No, I had never intentionally caused anyone physical pain, but I had hurt Ian deeply enough just by hurting myself. Human lives were so impossibly tangled. What a mess.