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

Plant: "Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion."

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

Plant: "I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place."

Plant: "The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone."

Plant: "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."

Plant: "I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things."

Plant: "There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick."

Plant: "You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you."

Plant: "You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it."

Plant: "Music is for every single person that walks the planet."

Plant: "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."

Plant: "There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself."