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

Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.

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

I deal in emotions. It's the harmonic side that's important. That's the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I've got to keep at it.

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another 20 years, but I don't know... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding... a funny feeling... vultures.

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.