It's a shame to see these young chicks bungle their lives away in a flurry and rush to compete with what was in the old days the goodtime relationshi….

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse.….

My sort of stability as a character, it's never been one of my strongest attributes. I'm a bit of a clusterf*ck. I get so many great ideas that I kin….

Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by..

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today..

I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than the ma….

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

There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?".

There's so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you meet along the….

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. Mor….

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions..

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically..

I'd break out in hives if I had to sing (`Stairway to Heaven') in every show. I wrote those lyrics and found that song to be of some importance and c….

Austin - it's a stimulating center. In this conversation, the very first two questions were talking about my kind of wanderlust and my adventures. So….

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

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice..

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though..

I'm a grandfather now..

How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great mom….

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in..

And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility an….