Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.

You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're on your own and that's what I find so fascinating about it.

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

There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.

Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.