Robert Anthony Plant CBE (born 20 August 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin.
I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.
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.
I 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.
My sort of stability as a character, it's never been one of my strongest attributes. I'm a bit of a clusterf*ck. I get so many great ideas that I kind of mesmerize people with another plan before the previous plan is hatched out.
I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.
Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can. You've got to be out there adventuring with the voice. Because if you're just a singer for the sake of it, it's not quite enough.
I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted up as far as it would go and then let to spring - "doooiiinng. " I like to make it into a piece of metal from time to time and I can do it, both with the movements in my throat and with, uh, my little toys. . . So I like to take it beyond just a voice, more into the realms of a weapon.
Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.
I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway?
Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.
Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
I hate cliché. And when you're a rock singer in 1966, or whatever it was, psychedelic blues, through to the '70s, which we know all about, and the '80s, which was a scramble to hang on in, and the '90s, which was a great time for experimentation. . . and I'm really still excited. The huge vast diagonals within the music that I've been involved with.
The essence of Bonham is what he didn't play rather than what he did play - what he left out.
Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.
All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.
I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.
To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.
I think I surprise myself.
I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.