“Heavy Metal would not exist without Led Zeppelin, and if it did, it would suck.”

“I remember saying to Tony [Iommi], ‘Did you hear how heavy that Led Zeppelin album sounded?’Without missing a beat, he replied, ‘We’ll be heavier.’”

“Who knew knights wore flannel shirts and Led Zeppelin tees?”

“Well, I sort of don’t trust anybody who doesn’t like Led Zeppelin.”

“Today you hear people saying that we invented heavy metal with the song ‘Black Sabbath’. But I’ve always had a bee up my arse about the term ‘heavy metal’. To me, it doesn’t say anything musically, especially now that you’ve got seventies heavy metal, eighties heavy metal, nineties heavy metal and new - millennium heavy metal – which are all completely different, even though people talk about them like they’re all the same.”

“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”