Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.

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.

Life is sweet when you pay attention. When it doesn't seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance.

Patriotism is not short frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.

Humans aren't defined by death, and they're not defined by what they lack. They're defined by their connections.

There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.

Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.

I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.