Robert Plant Quotes

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

London made my family and myself.

You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

You can get connections in lots of ways. You can get it by a friendship. You can get it by a dog. You can get it by a child. You can get it by being attached to a cause. You can get it by having huge problems and sharing those problems with other people.

At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.

I've changed Sydney. It's my city, my people. I'm theirs. We belong to each other.

It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.

As someone who is displaced - I left London almost fifteen years ago to make Connecticut my home - I am drawn to stories about people who don't belong, whether physically or emotionally, and who find their families of choice in their friends.

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

Something has been lost, a special feeling of patriotism, of belonging, is vanishing.

I love my community. I love always being able to come back and have a home.

Seattle has always been home.

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

In a lot of my films, the biggest theme is family, making families out of those around you.

I'm from New Jersey. But I went to school in Los Angeles and all across the country. So, I can totally connect with missing home.