If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.

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.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

Don’t look at your circumstance. Be courageous!

With love and kindness, grow peace in your mind and then spread it with joy.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family...

Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.

Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?

Now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing the one-question rule. That was three questions.

At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.