The States were much more fun. L.A. was L.A. It's not L.A. now. L.A. infested with jaded 12-year-olds is not the L.A. that I really dug.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway?

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

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

I don't think that you can rehash music that was born in the Fillmore East and came from a whole different set of social and emotional circumstances. The situation has changed. Let's get real about this.

If you do what you think is right for the benefit of everybody and everything and you make decisions, to go back and regret them afterwards - it's a futile experience and it's not worth thinking about. Because life just unfolds. Provided you do your best and you think you're on the right track, you can only be right or wrong. But to regret it - I don't think there are any huge errors or misdemeanors.