Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.

I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.

I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ... I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened. ... I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. ... I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

I don't like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, "I'm only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world." I don't like to say that to people either. But, I do think there's a loss of romance.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.