Robert Plant Quotes

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

I think The Song Remains The Same is such a load of old bollocks.

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 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.

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

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.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.

I think I'm prone to panic.

I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.

I'm tipping the hat and looking back.

Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.

I'll just carry on being a dated flower child.

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.

I can't regret until the end. And I won't regret then, either.

What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.

The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards.

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.

I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.

I met Jason Donovan at RAK studios. He had jodphurs on and small riding boots as he jumped out of the cab. He looked just like me!

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

Boredom is a horrible thing.

I live with the people I've always lived with. I'm quite content.

The States were much more fun. L.A. was L.A. It's not L.A. now. L.A. infested with jaded 12-year-olds is not the L.A. that I really dug.

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

Now and again there will be the occasional joke about owing someone two dollars from the days in '63 when I was a broke blues singer with a washboard, but it's good. I'm happy.

I think I surprise myself.

I won't do a reunion tour unless my solo career fails miserably.

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.

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.

I'm too old for Led Zeppelin.

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.

I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

Alone I'm nothing.