Robert Plant

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

My dad played fiddle as well.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.

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.

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

I hate wasting time.

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.