What Jimmy Page did was pretty inspiring for guitar players. He married a lot of acoustic elements into hard rock. The kind of chords he used were very left of center, with a lot of dissonance -- I absorbed that like a sponge. It's all over the music I write, always.

I saw Led Zeppelin live for the first time when I was thirteen. I remember sitting there with Ann, and we were blushing 'cause they were so raw. It was disturbing yet alluring. We were already doing music together, mainly because of the Beatles. But when we got into Zeppelin, it really helped to form our identity. These guys were not just playing straight power chords, you know?