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.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.

You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.