I'm still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It's not very easy to find them these days.

You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.

There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't.

Seeing people's faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.

The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.