Quotes By Robert Plant

Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

Alone I'm nothing.

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

I think I'm prone to panic.

I hate cliche.

There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?