Zeppelin were a blues band but [also] so much more, [as were] The Stones.

A lot of people go, "I'm influenced by the Beatles and Zeppelin," and they just sound like a karaoke.

If you want to achieve something, you have to work a little harder and get out of your comfort zone. That is with everything: relationships, the band, music, athletics. All of the above.

That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.

I think if you're inspired, you don't let a little thing like scheduling and deadlines get in your way.

Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.

I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Performing in front of my fans is what I love to do and I hope I get to do it forever.

Life without an ideal is spiritual death.

Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S. Navy at the time he issued the order.

Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.

Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic.

If I win and play well, then the ranking will take care of itself. Defending points is really not a problem. Just go out and play and not worry about it.

I don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous.