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" The album's not dead for me; I still buy vinyl albums. "

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" If people want to find things, they find them themselves. "

" The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonham,' the introduction of John Bonham on the first album and 'Good Times Bad Times,' it changes drumming overnight. "

" I am very good at remembering music and am absolutely certain that I never heard 'Taurus' until 2014. "

" The instruments that bleed into each other are what creates the ambience. Once you start cleaning everything up, you lose it. You lose that sort of halo that bleeding creates. Then if you eliminate the halo, you have to go back and put in some artificial reverb, which is never as good. "

" Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart. Each of the members was important to the sum total of what we were. "

" I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always. "

" I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot. "

" Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid. "

" Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security. "

" I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as you hear it. "

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

" I really don't listen to Led Zeppelin that much. "

" Time sometimes passes quite quickly. "

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

" I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of Keith Richards' autobiography, and it was totally parallel with me, learning from American records. "

" My first guitar was like a campfire guitar. And it was left at a house that my family had moved into... and the guitar was at the house. It was all strung up. It's normally something that would be beyond a bit of rubbish. "

" You get a chance like that maybe once in your lifetime, and you are lucky to sustain it over that period of time. It doesn't mean to say that whatever I do in the future has no substance to it - I may present some new material I've got, and there are definitely new angles of doing it - but I'm not looking to recreate another Led Zeppelin. "

" I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing. "

" Nobody could have predicted the effect of John Bonham's drum introduction on 'Good Times, Bad Times,' because no matter what he'd played in before, he'd never had the chance to flex his muscles and play like John Bonham. "

" If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before, new approaches to chord sequences, riffs, rhythms, so it becomes composition. It's not like the music I'm doing is just a single thread. "

" I'm pretty loyal to my guitars, you know, but then they're pretty loyal to me, too. "

" I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing. "

" Because somebody plays guitar, why does it mean they need a singer? Because people already have this image of things? No, I'll put my music together, then think about whether I need to embellish it with a singer. "

" The whole thing about 'The Rover' is the whole swagger of it, the whole guitar attitude swagger. I'm afraid I've got to say it, but it's the sort of thing that is so apparent when you hear 'Rumble' by Link Wray - it's just total attitude, isn't it? "