Robert Plant
There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?"Collection: Doors
Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.Collection: Six Months
And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.Collection: Song
The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.Collection: Rocks
Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.Collection: Careers
Austin - it's a stimulating center. In this conversation, the very first two questions were talking about my kind of wanderlust and my adventures. Some people at my time in life travel forever. I don't know whether it's the British or the Australians - whoever it is, you can kind of stagger into some sort of far-off bastion in the middle of nowhere, and you'll find someone from Britain or someone from Australia or maybe an American.Collection: Adventure
I hate cliché. And when you're a rock singer in 1966, or whatever it was, psychedelic blues, through to the '70s, which we know all about, and the '80s, which was a scramble to hang on in, and the '90s, which was a great time for experimentation... and I'm really still excited. The huge vast diagonals within the music that I've been involved with.Collection: Hate
When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.Collection: Singing
I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted up as far as it would go and then let to spring - "doooiiinng." I like to make it into a piece of metal from time to time and I can do it, both with the movements in my throat and with, uh, my little toys... So I like to take it beyond just a voice, more into the realms of a weapon.Collection: Spring
I listen to the crowds [laughs]... I like Blind Melon very much.Collection: Laughing
I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.Collection: Voice
I'd break out in hives if I had to sing (`Stairway to Heaven') in every show. I wrote those lyrics and found that song to be of some importance and consequence in 1971, but 17 years later, I don't know. It's just not for me. I sang it at the Atlantic Records show because I'm an old softie and it was my way of saying thank you to Atlantic because I've been with them for 20 years. But no more of `Stairway to Heaven' for me.Collection: Song
I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.Collection: Reflection
How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.Collection: Passion
The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards.Collection: Mirrors
The idea of actually taking sharp turns left and right has always intrigued me, but I've never really been bold enough to do that. As musicians go, I've allowed myself to be carried by other people's enthusiasm into places where I've learned a lot. There is no real tumult anymore. What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.Collection: Real
[Elvis] Presley was definitely a great inspiration to every guy who ever had a hard-on in the whole of the Western world, I should think. He shook everybody well and true, and we just kept on shakin'. But he started it.Collection: Inspiration
I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.Collection: Way
Boredom is a horrible thing.Collection: Boredom
I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.Collection: Stuff
I won't do a reunion tour unless my solo career fails miserably.Collection: Careers
I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.Collection: Song
Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.Collection: Art
I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.Collection: Years
I'm too old for Led Zeppelin.Collection: Zeppelins
I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places.Collection: Years
I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings. And so Austin is very stimulating. I'm familiar with a lot of very charming people who have brought a lot of color to my life and a lot of love.Collection: Color
I met some people who help in an archeological project in the South Pacific, between sailing to the Marquesas, which is an island group not too far from Tahiti, and I think, Wouldn't that be great? I have such a fascination with history and especially history in my own country.Collection: Country
I come from a very small island which is packed with people. I mean, jam-packed with people. I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity, which I try to avoid. Austin is a great sort of stepping-off point, if you like. I'm from a temperate climate.Collection: Creativity
It's funny, you know - time does travel pretty quickly, and I do have good friends, and the further away I go from them in location, it matters that I keep on the same line and the same groove that I had and preserve that groove with people who I see seldom.Collection: Good Friend
Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.Collection: World
I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.Collection: Creativity
I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.Collection: Years
It's amazing, it's pumping, it's furious, it's anxious, it's happy and it's far more real than anything you'll ever experience in a Western city. Morocco is a living, pulsating entity which is rapidly changing all the time but there are parts of Marrakesh that carry on as they have done for a thousands years. The music is a reflection of that, of all times and all religions and of all the natural expectations and conditions of the people who live there.Collection: Real
I can't regret until the end. And I won't regret then, either.Collection: Regret
When I was a kid, the world was such a big place, and I had no idea that I would be afforded these great moments in between doing what I love to do. I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places. I see it all and yet I see so little because it's so fast.Collection: Kids
When I was a kid, the world was such a big place, and I had no idea that I would be afforded these great moments in between doing what I love to do.Collection: Kids
Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.Collection: Creative
My sort of stability as a character, it's never been one of my strongest attributes. I'm a bit of a clusterf*ck. I get so many great ideas that I kind of mesmerize people with another plan before the previous plan is hatched out.Collection: Character
I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.Collection: Zeppelins
I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.Collection: Names
It's part of me to get off on those moments where... well, what people would call attention. Obviously, that isn't the be-all and end-all of life, but at the states of creativity that I've reached, well, it helps the lyrics along a little bit.Collection: Creativity
Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza.Collection: Kids
There's so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you meet along the way.Collection: Beautiful
I don't see what the point is in growing up.Collection: Growing Up
Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.Collection: Conditions