The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.

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

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

I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.