You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this. Robert Plant More Quotes by Robert Plant More Quotes From Robert Plant I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage. Robert Plant voice long people Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas. Robert Plant sensitive youth men It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. Robert Plant achievement awards land There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics. Robert Plant folk-music similarity folks When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do. Robert Plant fantastic volume years I listen to the crowds [laughs]... I like Blind Melon very much. Robert Plant crowds blind laughing Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius. Robert Plant six-months genius months 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. Robert Plant voice sound spring When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant. Robert Plant phrases singing done I'm a grandfather now. Robert Plant grandfather Each album comes from definitely a different period in the evolution of each of us individually as creators and the role that we take in life. The external stimuli changed... so the songs are full of lots of different meanings. Robert Plant albums different song I owe everything to the musicians I work with. Robert Plant musician Page and I get offered everything: women, little boys, cocaine, the lot, to just go back and do that again. I don't think it would be a good idea at all. [But] I reserve judgment to change my mind in five years' time. Robert Plant boys years thinking 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 lucky kids needs I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could. Robert Plant want song night Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom. Robert Plant nothing-matters sadness matter I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home. Robert Plant week satisfaction home 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 smile men thinking 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. Robert Plant teenage three kids I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really. Robert Plant tenors voice wanted