It's amazing, it's pumping, it's furious, it's anxious, it's happy and it's far more real than anything you'll ever experience in a Western city. Morocco is a living, pulsating entity which is rapidly changing all the time but there are parts of Marrakesh that carry on as they have done for a thousands years. The music is a reflection of that, of all times and all religions and of all the natural expectations and conditions of the people who live there.

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

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

It's funny, you know - time does travel pretty quickly, and I do have good friends, and the further away I go from them in location, it matters that I keep on the same line and the same groove that I had and preserve that groove with people who I see seldom.

The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.