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

I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

Each album has a different atmosphere. The third album and Houses of the Holy seem to be the two albums that people didn't get off on quite as strongly as the other ones. But I think they contain the basic ingredients for the further pursuance of what we're doing... the turning point to relieve the tedium of repetition.

I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.

People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.