You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you

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.

Master, take me in along with these people." Jesus answered and said, "Your star has led you astray, Judas.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!

Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

Politicians are masters of sounding like they agree with you.

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

That defining moment at my friend's house, when his uncle looks in my eye and reads me the word of God, I have an awakening.