There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

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.

Abundant grace, amazing life.

Privacy seems not an illusion for those who want to believe in secrecy principle.

A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed.

Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?

Sometimes the longest journey we make is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts.

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.