Robert Plant

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

“The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?”

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

“I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.”

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

“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.”

“Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.”

“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.”

“Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.”

“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.”

“The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.”