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

My dad played fiddle as well.

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

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

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

You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.