A biography for Robert Planthasn’t been written yet.
“I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.”
“I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.”
“I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.”
“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.”
“I think I'm prone to panic.”
“I don't think I've aged gracefully.”
“So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“Does anyone remember laughter?”
“When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.”
“You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?”
“To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.”
“I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.”
“It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.”
“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 want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.”
“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'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.”