He's entitled to be annoyed and I understand the desire to officially distance himself because he's right: a good number of people probably will assume they've got something to do with it. Now if it was called "Stairway to Heaven" instead, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant would not have the same problem. Know what I'm sayin'? ;)
"If you ever see me sitting on a panel acting like I think I'm God Almighty and making demeaning remarks about fellow musicians, you have my permission to shoot me. With a rubber tommy water gun."
LOL - outstanding.