A biography for Robert Planthasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.”
“Alone I'm nothing.”
“I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.”
“If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.”
“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.”
“I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.”
“There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.”
“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 hate wasting time.”
“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.”
“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'm a grandfather now.”
“I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.”
“It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.”
“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?”
“It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.”
“I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.”