Soon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.
ROBERT PLANTSoon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.
ROBERT PLANTYou know sometimes words have two meanings.
ROBERT PLANTWhat 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.
ROBERT PLANTNow I’m a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
ROBERT PLANTIt’s not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
ROBERT PLANTThe calendar and the mirror – they’re bastards.
ROBERT PLANTI listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
ROBERT PLANTI 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.
ROBERT PLANTThere’s nothing new under the sun – you just get a can of paint out.
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 PLANTI’m British – ostensibly British – but I don’t know where I really belong, you know?
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 PLANTI treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.
ROBERT PLANTI’ll just carry on being a dated flower child.
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 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.
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