Quotes By Robert Plant

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

I hate wasting time.

I've still got a twinkle in me.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

Does anyone remember laughter?

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.

You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.

Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.