If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

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

Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.

We kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times.

Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.'

I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that's a strong character, the stronger the person is.