I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.

I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.

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.

You can't expect to be the same person you were three years ago. Some people expect you to be and can't come to terms with the fact that if a year has elapsed between LPs, that means one year's worth of changes. The material consequently is affected by that, the lyrics are affected by that... the music too.

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to... if people want to find things, they find them themselves.

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