Quotes from Robert Plant

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly.

I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy

There's still time to change the road you're on...

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

I'm a grandfather now.

I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.

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.

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

I hate cliche.