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.

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.

I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.

I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to... if people want to find things, they find them themselves.

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

I've never regretted anything I've ever done.

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.