I'm a grandfather now.
— Robert Plant
Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.
I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.
Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
I've still got a twinkle in me.
A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.
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 a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
My dad played fiddle as well.
I owe everything to the musicians I work with.
It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
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.
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.
You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?
I hate wasting time.
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.
It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.
Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.
I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.
Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.
I think I'm prone to panic.
There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.
I hate cliche.
I think I surprise myself.
There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.
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 have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.
I don't think I've aged gracefully.
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
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.
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 don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.
If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.
I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?
So many white kids, English kids - we had no culture.
It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
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.
When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
Alone I'm nothing.
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.
There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.
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.
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.
I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.
