Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.

There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.

I don't know whether I'll reach 40. I don't know whether I'll reach 35. I can't be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn't think I'd make 30.

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

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'

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.