Robert Plant

To rock isn’t necessarily to cavort.

I’m just incredibly fortunate that my eyes and ears have been opened. I have to be honest with myself and remove as much of the repetition and fakery as is humanly possible. To soothe the savage heart, we have to repeat ourselves sometimes – that’s entertainment.

I made my life ambitious and big and crazy, and basically now I am the helmsman of this mad affair, and I need to take stock. I write these songs, and I live and die in the middle of them, but I can’t really tell you the truth about me, cause I don’t know what it is. It’s a f***ing great journey but it doesn’t all smell of roses.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

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

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.

I think the yule ball is more attractive to the girls who read it, I never really thought “Oh I get to go to the ball!

You can never say you’re big – I don’t think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

I am looking for a man I couldn’t beat in a cage fight.

On Jimmy Kimmel we had a great time having a dialogue. I’m reading that I was stumped by a question. Let me clarify the click bait. I wasn’t stumped. I wasn’t given a chance to answer the question.

You know, people can’t fall in love with me just because I’m good at what I do.

[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.

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

Mothers – we owe everything to them. They gave birth to us, they nurtured us, they made us who we are. And this Mother’s Day, we have just one thing to say to all the mothers out there: Get the fuck back to work.

[on Syrian Refugee Crisis] We have a worldwide international catastrophe – talking about it is one thing, doing something about it is another.

The interesting thing about my character ‘Sylar’ is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadows. I stepped into this character and then realized how much there was to play with.

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I’m being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.

If there’s anything that I can do with my time and my day to somehow make a difference, while I’m alive, imma try to do it. Period.

Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

Of course, chicks keep popping up. When you’re in a hotel, a pretty young lady makes life bearable.