Each album has a different atmosphere. The third album and Houses of the Holy seem to be the two albums that people didn't get off on quite as strongly as the other ones. But I think they contain the basic ingredients for the further pursuance of what we're doing... the turning point to relieve the tedium of repetition.

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

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

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.