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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.

Robert Plant

The calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.
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Bastard Calendar Mirror
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’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?
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Country Know People Really
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
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
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 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 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
You know sometimes words have two meanings.
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Sometimes Two Zeppelins
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
Dolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
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Done Heaven Possible Stairway
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
People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.
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Million Millionaire People
When you’re 20 years old and you’re making points with volume and dynamism, it’s a fantastic thing to do.
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Fantastic Volume Year
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
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
I listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
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Blind Crowd Laughing
Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
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Matter Nothing Sadness
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 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
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’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.
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Anything Flowerchild Happen
Now I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
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Coat Sleeves Commercial Hanging
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 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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