“I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.”

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

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.

If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

It felt almost rude to ignore toe pretty white bed, but we just weren’t going to make it that far.

We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

Allow yourself to fill with grace, for you have come so far.

We’re not far from home.

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.