I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

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

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.

There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now.

I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.

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.