No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.
Robert Plant
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.
Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
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.
Does anyone remember laughter?
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.
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.
There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.
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.
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.
People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.
You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.
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.
I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
I'm a grandfather now.
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.
The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.
I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.
I hate wasting time.
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!
My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.
I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.
Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.
I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.
I hate cliche.
There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
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.
I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.
You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?
I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
I owe everything to the musicians I work with.
I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.
I've still got a twinkle in me.
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 nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.
I still like to get carried away - but passively.
It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
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?
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.
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.
We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.
My dad played fiddle as well.
