Quotes By Robert Plant

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

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.

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

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.

I hate wasting time.

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

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

I've still got a twinkle in me.

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.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

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.

How can you consider flower power outdated?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 How could it become outdated?

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.

Does anyone remember laughter?