(`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 don't think I've aged gracefully.

Boredom is a horrible thing.

I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

The essence of Bonham is what he didn't play rather than what he did play - what he left out.

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