Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.
But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.
I spend a lot of time near water.
Seeing people's faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.
There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all there. If the bottom was to sag out of that, for God's sake, help us all.
I don't feel I have to top myself at all.
I don't like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.
You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.
The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.
I will still carry on changing all the time.
You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're on your own and that's what I find so fascinating about it.
When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.
It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.
Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.
The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.
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.
I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.
Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.
There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there's a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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.
You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.
I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.
There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.
