You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.

It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

Page and I get offered everything: women, little boys, cocaine, the lot, to just go back and do that again. I don't think it would be a good idea at all. [But] I reserve judgment to change my mind in five years' time.