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I’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?

Robert Plant

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
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
I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.
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Enjoy Surrounding Treat
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
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 I’ve aged gracefully.
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Aged Gracefully Thinking
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
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
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
You know sometimes words have two meanings.
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Sometimes Two Zeppelins
I listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
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Blind Crowd Laughing
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’ll just carry on being a dated flower child.
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Child Flower

I’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?

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