There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?"

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.

Our homes travel with us. They are wherever we feel loved and accepted.

Gideon brought into my life. The acceptance and the love. The safety. Gideon had given me my freedom back, a life without terror. Giving him vows in return was too simple a repayment for that.

No person that has ever felt the benefits of being present can consider himself a victim, or unhappy in any way.

To me, my brand is luxury, it's art, it's women, it's raw, it's urban.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.

Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.