“Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.”

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley’s house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

I deal in emotions. It’s the harmonic side that’s important. That’s the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I’ve got to keep at it.

There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.

The key to Zeppelin’s longevity has been change.

I don’t know whether I’ll reach 40. I don’t know whether I’ll reach 35. I can’t be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn’t think I’d make 30.

I’m at my best when I’m exhausted and under pressure.

You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.

I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

You’re always you, and that doesn’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

My heart is beating, and I’m breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that.

Karma means that you can change your destiny, not simply be ruled by it.

The mind is a powerful instrument. Every thought, every emotion that you create changes the very chemistry of your body.