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.
— Robert Plant
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.
All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.
I still like to get carried away - but passively.
Does anyone remember laughter?
No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.
My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
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 can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.
I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.
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.
To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.
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.
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.
I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.
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.
So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.
I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.
I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.
Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.
