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

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.

Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly.

I think I surprise myself.

I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

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.