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….Sometimes the parting was so fast, I was not able to get them into alphabetical order, but I still got away with my records, that was essential.

If I didn’t do what I do, I wouldn’t be as young as I am.

I’ve been scared and I’ve liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I’m in my comfort zone.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

Led Zeppelin was a very sensitive and beautiful animal beast.

There’s nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that’s a fact.

I don’t remember anyone’s name. How do you think the ‘dahling’ thing got started?

I feel like I needed a balance. I don’t want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.

This is what I’ve learned about women: A guy’s walking down the street and he kicks a Coke can, and out comes a genie, and the genie says: “I will grant you one wish.” The guy says, “I don’t need anything. I’m happy. I play tennis. I sing in a rock group. But there is just one thing. I want to go to Florida and I hate flying. Can you build me a bridge from London to Miami?” And the genie scratches his head and says, “I don’t think I can do that. That’s a bit too much.” So the guy says, “Wait a minute: women. Can you explain the ways of a woman’s mind?” And the genie looks at him and says, “About that bridge. Do you want a handrail and lights?” It’s a handrail and lights, man. Whenever there’s trouble with women we all go, “Just give me the bridge.” It’s much easier.

[In 1969] I thought how awful, this poor girl is being managed by someone who had no respect for her at all… I’ve been her agent since then.

[On her most dreadful crush] I used to drive, pretty pathetically, I’d just drive by their house all the time and they didn’t know who I was. I’d just drive by the house all the time. I once knocked on the window and I thought, “What am I doing? What am I going to say if they come to the door and don’t know who I am?”

I never get to go to movies, because I’m a mom.

Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.

There are so many people who are trying to make it in the music business. It’s a very open business, more open I think than any other area of show business.

I don’t enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don’t have that kind of ‘I love the bad guys’ thing. No, no thank you. I like nice people.

Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I’m having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.

[On taking a pay cut to make a documentary] I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it’s going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

When you’re on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?

Working for me is like a gift!