Robert Plant

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

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.