I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.

I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.

(`Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. `Kashmir' is.

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

What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.

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

I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.