How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
– Robert Plant
I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious.
– Robert Plant
I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
– Robert Plant
I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
– Robert Plant
I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!
– Robert Plant
I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.
– Robert Plant
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
– Robert Plant
I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.
– Robert Plant
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.
– Robert Plant
My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
– Robert Plant
No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.
– Robert Plant
Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
– Robert Plant
People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.
– Robert Plant
We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
– 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.
– Robert Plant
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
– Robert Plant
You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.
– Robert Plant
Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.
– Robert Plant
When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
– Robert Plant
Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
– Robert Plant
My dad played fiddle as well.
– Robert Plant
Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
– Robert Plant
It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
– Robert Plant
I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
– Robert Plant
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.
– Robert Plant
I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.
– Robert Plant
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.
– Robert Plant
I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.
– Robert Plant
I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.
– Robert Plant
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.