Old men do it better. We’re not so sensitive in certain areas.

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

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn’t want to go on!

It’s sort of a feeling of power onstage. It’s really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don’t really think it’s power… it’s the goodness.

You know, people can’t fall in love with me just because I’m good at what I do.

Does anyone remember laughter?

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

Old men do it better. We’re not so sensitive in certain areas.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

You can’t give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside – so be it. But at least you know you’ve tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

I’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.

No, I’ve never thought that I was gay. And that’s not something you think. It’s something you know.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

I can’t moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?