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I’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.

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
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
I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.
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Enjoy Surrounding Treat
I’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?
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Country Know People Really
There’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.
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New Nothing Paint Sun Under
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
Now I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
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Coat Sleeves Commercial Hanging
Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
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Matter Nothing Sadness
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
I’ll just carry on being a dated flower child.
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Child Flower
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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Tenors Voice Wanted
Lately, I’m spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream – almost dissolving into another world, musically.
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Leaving Musician Rock
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 listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
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Blind Crowd Laughing
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
It’s not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
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Beauty Love Rock Roll

I’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.

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