Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.

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.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

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.

Yeah, I think the point has well and truly sunk in by now, and I can just carry on. I don't even know what I'm looking for except a bit of hilarity and mild insanity musically, and I can get none of that by just delving into the history.