The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

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.

Luck always favors those who are bold.

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.

It is my firm belief that action on the issues that matter for Africa must emerge from within Africa itself.

Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

No one more cynical than an idealist.

How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.

I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.