Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page)

We weren't making money in the Yardbirds.

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.

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.

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.

I always thought I'd be dead by 30, then dead by 40 and on and on. Now I'm 55 so I didn't even die at 50.

I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

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

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.

I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.

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.