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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.

Robert Plant

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
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
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
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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Tenors Voice Wanted
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
Soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.
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Cross Helping Needs Street
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
The calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.
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Bastard Calendar Mirror
I’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.
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Anything Flowerchild Happen
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 nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.
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New Nothing Paint Sun Under
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 listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
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Blind Crowd Laughing
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’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?
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Country Know People Really

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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