Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
ROBERT PLANTCome into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.
ROBERT PLANTI 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.
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 PLANTI 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.
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 listen to the crowds [laughs]… I like Blind Melon very much.
ROBERT PLANTIt’s not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
ROBERT PLANTIt’s crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.
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 PLANTYou know sometimes words have two meanings.
ROBERT PLANTI’ll just carry on being a dated flower child.
ROBERT PLANTSoon, I’m going to need help crossing the street.
ROBERT PLANTI don’t think I’ve aged gracefully.
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 wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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