Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.

Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.

Things work in cycles.

Even though everybody's lives are different, in general we're all human beings, and we go through the same things: disappointments, the pleasures of life, life and death. That's always been a really big part of the show to me, making sure the audience feels connected, and that carries through to the album.

For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

Led Zeppelin wasn't a corporate entity.

I was really competitive with myself.

We weren't making money in the Yardbirds.

We were lucky in the days of Led Zeppelin. Each album was different. We didn't have to continue a formula or produce a certain number of singles. Because, in those days, radio was still playing albums. That was really good.