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.

I do spend a lot more time away from the U.K., it's important to me that I still feel the beat of the people that have been close to me for a long, long time. It's also important that I have really strong and beautiful relationships which I wish to preserve. That enables me - or challenges me, ultimately - to get a Texas driving license!

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

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

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.

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?