Page: "I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always."

Page: "I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it."

Page: "I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing."

Page: "I seem to have tireless energy when I get involved in things, on an almost OCD basis, which is a good way to do things because if you're gonna do something, you'd better make sure you do it well."

Page: "My guitar playing touches so many different areas of the form, but the important thing is what it represents across the form."

Page: "I don't really want to go on about my personal beliefs or my involvement in magic. I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to."

Page: "The benchmark of quality I go for is pretty high."

Page: "My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army."

Page: "I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back."

Page: "I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia. But it's not. It's airplanes, hotel rooms, limousines, and armed guards standing outside rooms. I don't get off on that part of it at all."

Page: "If I'm going to put my image into something, I'll put my image into something that I actually feel like I'd like to do."

Page: "Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid."

Page: "I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising."

Page: "If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before, new approaches to chord sequences, riffs, rhythms, so it becomes composition. It's not like the music I'm doing is just a single thread."

Page: "I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert."

Page: "I can't think of a greater guitar icon than someone who has the musical intellect to change what was there before and take music in another direction. That's a guitar hero for me."

Page: "Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security."

Page: "That's exactly why I came into music in the first place: to be inspired by what I hear to make it something else, to make it my own. That's how culture, creativity, moves, isn't it?"

Page: "You want that - peers respecting what you're doing."

Page: "I've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar."

Page: "I really love playing live - it's such a gas."