There’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
ROBERT PLANTThere’s a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
ROBERT PLANTI 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.
ROBERT PLANTMy 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.
ROBERT PLANTWhen 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.
ROBERT PLANTI’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.
ROBERT PLANTIt’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
ROBERT PLANTI don’t think I’ve aged gracefully.
ROBERT PLANTI 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.
ROBERT PLANTFinding 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.
ROBERT PLANTCome into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
ROBERT PLANTLately, I’m spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream – almost dissolving into another world, musically.
ROBERT PLANTWhen you’re 20 years old and you’re making points with volume and dynamism, it’s a fantastic thing to do.
ROBERT PLANTDolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
ROBERT PLANTNow I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
ROBERT PLANTI 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.
ROBERT PLANTThere’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.
ROBERT PLANT