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" 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. "

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" 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! "

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

" People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions. "

" Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically. "

" I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian. "

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

" Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana. "

" My dad played fiddle as well. "

" 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. "

" The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone. "

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

" I think I surprise myself. "

" Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park. "

" So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture. "

" I hate wasting time. "

" You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life? "

" If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am. "

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" How can you consider flower power outdated?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 How could it become outdated? "

" Alone I'm nothing. "

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" To rock isn't necessarily to cavort. "

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" It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer. "

" Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment. "

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

" There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick. "

" Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street. "

" There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics. "

" 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. "

" 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. "