Occupation: Musician Birth: August 20, 1948
It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards..
(`Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. `Kashmir' is..
I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet..
Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius..
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-ol….
Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park..
I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings..
I met Jason Donovan at RAK studios. He had jodphurs on and small riding boots as he jumped out of the cab. He looked just like me!.
The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and ….
The idea of actually taking sharp turns left and right has always intrigued me, but I've never really been bold enough to do that. As musicians go, I….
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of ….
Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly..
When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do..
Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between t….
I think I surprise myself..
Boredom is a horrible thing..
The States were much more fun. L.A. was L.A. It's not L.A. now. L.A. infested with jaded 12-year-olds is not the L.A. that I really dug..
I listen to the crowds [laughs]... I like Blind Melon very much..
I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way..
I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement..
It's part of me to get off on those moments where... well, what people would call attention. Obviously, that isn't the be-all and end-all of life, bu….