Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

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

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.

I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.

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

Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.