Dolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
ROBERT PLANTDolly Parton’s done ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Anything’s possible.
ROBERT PLANTThe calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.
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 PLANTYou know sometimes words have two meanings.
ROBERT PLANTI’ve lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.
ROBERT PLANTI’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.
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 PLANTCome into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
ROBERT PLANTI’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?
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 PLANTNow I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
ROBERT PLANTI wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
ROBERT PLANTI 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 PLANTPeople say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.
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’ll just carry on being a dated flower child.
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