What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.

It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

Each album comes from definitely a different period in the evolution of each of us individually as creators and the role that we take in life. The external stimuli changed... so the songs are full of lots of different meanings.

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.