It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future. Robert Plant More Quotes by Robert Plant More Quotes From Robert Plant Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza. Robert Plant home kids thinking There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living. Robert Plant luxury wealth goes-on There's so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you meet along the way. Robert Plant beautiful people way I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time. Robert Plant plant sheep thinking No matter what we say, entertainers are usually quite insecure, wobbly characters underneath, and maybe that bit of glory or that bit of expression or whatever it is compensates in some area. Robert Plant insecure expression character I'd break out in hives if I had to sing (`Stairway to Heaven') in every show. I wrote those lyrics and found that song to be of some importance and consequence in 1971, but 17 years later, I don't know. It's just not for me. I sang it at the Atlantic Records show because I'm an old softie and it was my way of saying thank you to Atlantic because I've been with them for 20 years. But no more of `Stairway to Heaven' for me. Robert Plant song heaven years There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out. Robert Plant nothing-new-under-the-sun paint sun It's amazing, it's pumping, it's furious, it's anxious, it's happy and it's far more real than anything you'll ever experience in a Western city. Morocco is a living, pulsating entity which is rapidly changing all the time but there are parts of Marrakesh that carry on as they have done for a thousands years. The music is a reflection of that, of all times and all religions and of all the natural expectations and conditions of the people who live there. Robert Plant real reflection years I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total. Robert Plant absolutes freak soccer I really had to think and learn about musical intervals. Robert Plant intervals musical thinking I think I'm prone to panic. Robert Plant panic thinking Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality. Robert Plant hanging-on I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone. Robert Plant hanging-on comfort stuff I don't see what the point is in growing up. Robert Plant growing growing-up I've still got a twinkle in me. Robert Plant stills I'd like to write a big rock anthem again. Robert Plant rocks writing ideas 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. Robert Plant character people ideas It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer. Robert Plant beauty-and-love rock-and-roll rocks I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was. Robert Plant What 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 Plant hippie years thinking
