You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.

This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.

We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that kind of excess around that time. They'd work on the same track for three or four days and then work on it some more, but that's clearly not the way to record an album. If the track isn't happening and it creates some sort of psychological barrier, even after an hour or two, then you should stop and do something else. Go out: go to the pub, or a restaurant or something. Or play another song.

You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.

There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't.

You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

I like change and I like contrast.