Robert Plant Quotes

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

A lot of people are surprised by my love of heavy metal. I fell in love with heavy metal almost before any other genre. One of the first concerts I went to was a Donnington Monsters Of Rock concert.

I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record, in 2013.

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

We've never been shy to admit that Metallica is a huge influence in our lives and on our music.

We're basically a rock band - guitar, bass, drums and vocals. But we take it further than that. We can be rotten, dirty, and heavy as anyone, but at the same time, we've got a lot of melody.

We're fans of stuff like Maiden, but I think we generally get it from weirder places. For me, the Eagles' 'Hotel California' represents one of the most brilliant harmony approaches to music. Boston did it very well, too.

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed in the wool blues cat, but I rock out when I do my show you know that.

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

I got into alternative rock in the early 80s, bands like Husker Du and The Replacements. Bob Mould's playing was a huge influence. It was very heavy with a lot of open tunings, which was great because I played in trios, so I used open tunings to get a fuller sound.

My music has been called heavy metal, but that's not an accurate description. I'd rather call it articulate rock because it expresses many feelings and emotions.

We wrote many a Rage song where we'd use Soundgarden as a template.

Edge was part of my fascination with KISS and Cheap Trick and Queen, mixed with wrestling.

I think it'd be weird for us to do hard rock.

AC/DC 'Back in Black' - Those were my punk rock days.

I like Joan Jett's 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll' because it's got a nice low singing voice.

With Rage, we wrote riff rock and had rap vocals, so we didn't really concern ourselves with melody for the most part.

The first time I heard Kiss, I knew that was the type of music I was attracted to.