The Key To Zeppelin's Longevity Has Been

Led Zeppelin Didn't Get That Kind Of Beatles Screaming. We Had A More Sort Of Macho Crowd. But I Remember Once In The Early Days Of The Yardbirds, We Were Playing On An Ice Rink, And The Stage Was Mobbed By Screaming Girls. I Had My Clothes Torn Off Me. That's A Really Uncomfortable Experience, Let Me Tell You.

The Element Of Change Has Been The Thing, Really. We Put Out The First One, Then The Second... Then A Third Lp Totally Different From Them. It's The Reason We Were Able To Keep It Together.

If I Ever Really Felt Depressed, I Would Just Start Putting On All My Old Records That I Played As A Kid, Because The Whole Thing That Really Lifted Me Then Still Lifted Me During Those Other Times. It Was Good Medicine For Me, And It Still Does That For Me When I Put Something On. Isn't It Wonderful That We've Got All That Good Medicine? I Think It's Got To Be All Part Of Our Dna, This Mass Communication Through Music. That's What It Is. It's Got To Be, Hasn't It? Music Is The One Thing That Has Been Consistently There For Me. It Hasn't Let Me Down.

Sometimes, I Must Admit, I'd Like To Have A Second Guitarist Onstage With Me, But It Wouldn't Look Right. I'd Like To Play For Another 20 Years, But I Don't Know... I Just Can't See It Happening. I Don't Know Why. It's A Certain Foreboding... A Funny Feeling... Vultures.

You Absorb So Much From Whatever Your Environment Is, As An Artist, And You Learn To Take From It What Can Help You Create.