Every Record Is A Portrait Of The

You Can't Overthink The Music. Mood And Intensity Can't Be Manufactured. The Blues Isn't About Structure; It's What You Bring To It. The Spontaneity Of Capturing A Specific Moment Is What Drives It.

There Will Be A Led Zeppelin As Long As There's A Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones And Robert Plant. This Isn't A Nostalgia Band Playing The Hits Forever. If Anything Ever Happened And Somebody Left - Which I Really Can't See Happening - I Don't Think We'd Bother To Carry On. The Magic For Me Is As It Is Now.

We Kept Moving Forward And Didn't Try To Recreate The Past .. The Approach To Each Album Was Radically Different Every Time. Many Bands Would Have Some Success And, Because They Were Locked Into Having A Single - Something We Didn't Have To Worry About - They Had To Make Sure There Was Something Similar On The Next Album ... That Was Never The Idea With Led Zeppelin .. The Goal Was To Keep That Spark Of Spontaneity At All Times.

Many People In The Neighborhood Liked Hip-hop And House Music, And I Couldn't Play That. You Can't Perform That On Guitar Or Drums, Which Was What I Was Playing, At The Time. But, I Got So Much From Mariachi Bands That Were Constantly Playing In The Neighborhood.

There's A Certain Standard In Classical Music That Allows The Application Of The Term "genius," But You're Treading On Thin Ice If You Start Applying It To Rock & Rollers.