The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.

Well, Led Zeppelin IV! That's it really. I'll tell you why the album had no title - because we were so fed up with the reactions to the third album, that people couldn't understand why that record wasn't a direct continuation of the second album. And then people said we were a hype and all, which was the furthest thing from what we were. So we just said, `let's put out an album with no title at all!' That way, either people like it or they don't... but we still got bad reviews!

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.

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 love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.

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