How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

I'll just carry on being a dated flower child.

I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.