The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.

I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.

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

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