Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

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.

The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards.

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

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.

When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.

It's a shame to see these young chicks bungle their lives away in a flurry and rush to compete with what was in the old days the goodtime relationships we had with the GTOs and people like that. When it came to looning, they could give us as much of a looning as we could give them. It's a shame, really.