I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

I'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.

There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all there. If the bottom was to sag out of that, for God's sake, help us all.

Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest achievement has been to create unexpected melodies and harmonies within a rock and roll framework. And as a producer I would like to be remembered as someone who was able to sustain a band of unquestionable individual talent, and push it to the forefront during its working career. I think I really captured the best of our output, growth, change and maturity on tape - the multifaceted gem that is Led Zeppelin.

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

Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.