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I listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.

Robert Plant

My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick – she couldn’t even get a brush through it. So I have been very fortunate. And every time I go to cut it off, hairdressers refuse to do it.
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Cutting Dark Mother
There’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.
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New Nothing Paint Sun Under
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.
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Compass Names Trying Use
There’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
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Country Folk Music Similarity
Finding another way to do what I know I can do pretty well. A way that stimulates me. I’m always on some sort of learning curve. If I can continually be surprised then I’m alert.
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Curves Way Well
Soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.
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Cross Helping Needs Street
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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Tenors Voice Wanted
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.
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Attention Trying White
People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.
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Million Millionaire People
I listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
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Blind Crowd Laughing
It’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
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Achievement Awards Land
I’ll just carry on being a dated flower child.
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Child Flower
When I was a kid, the world was such a big place, and I had no idea that I would be afforded these great moments in between doing what I love to do.
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Afford Ideas Kid Place
I’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?
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Country Know People Really
Now I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
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Coat Sleeves Commercial Hanging
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.
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Night People Year

I listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.

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I listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.

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