Quotes By Robert Plant

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

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

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

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.