Robin Zander Quotes

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

We're really excited to be even talked about in the same breath as Foo Fighters or Metallica.

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

If I were a rock star, I'd design my own clothes. I'd do it because that's the mark of a true rock star.

I didn't appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger. He defined that for the world. He was bold and adventurous with it, too - just the ultimate rock star.

It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy.

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

It's an honor that people give a crap about us. We're in a rock band; we're not supposed to be treated with any respect.

He might have been in Led Zeppelin, but to me he was just dad.

Joel? He's the rock star! When you see Joel step on stage... he's born to be a rock star.

Let's face it: Robert Plant is hot!

I think 'American Idol' has prepared me for anything.

'The X Factor' was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn't have before. It's a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you're ready for the industry.

Mickey' is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a one-hit wonder.