I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory.

I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It's great if you can write things down.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can.

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

Nowadays you can't be loud enough!