Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

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.

If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.

In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

Even a fool is wise after an event.

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

I love what I'm doing, I love creating new things.

Not everybody is going to love what you do, but you have to be yourself, that's what's most important. Bring it as hard as you can.

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.

I don't really care about being right, I just care about success.