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The calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.

Robert Plant

I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I’ve met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.
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Creative Past Thinking
Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
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Matter Nothing Sadness
I’ve lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.
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Ambition Creativity Idea
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
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 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
I don’t think that you can rehash music that was born in the Fillmore East and came from a whole different set of social and emotional circumstances. The situation has changed. Let’s get real about this.
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Emotional Real Thinking
I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.
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Enjoy Surrounding Treat
What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.
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Hippie Thinking Year
There’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
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Country Folk Music Similarity
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
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 wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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Tenors Voice Wanted
Dolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
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Done Heaven Possible Stairway
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.
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Air Great People Rock Thing

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