I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

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

There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.

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.

My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick - she couldn't even get a brush through it. So I have been very fortunate. And every time I go to cut it off, hairdressers refuse to do it.

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.