Robert Plant Quotes

I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit.

Doors opened for me and I ran for it.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

The happiest time in any man’s life is just after his first divorce.

One day it will be over, and I don't care.

The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.'

Take my horse to the old town road and ride till I can't no more' basically means just running away, and everything is just gone. The horse is metaphorical for not having anything or just the little things that you do have, and it's with you.

Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.

Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings you out of loneliness, that makes you free. And that's exactly what music does for me.

When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?

First we'll escape, then we'll play baseball.

When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose.

Trust me, high school ends. You graduate and get away from all the people you never want to see again-it's all good.

I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress.

I was in rare fettle and the heart had touched a new high. I don't know anything that braces one up like finding you haven't got to get married after all.

America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.