Robert Plant Quotes

If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument you can do crazy things with.

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.

I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

I'm universal. As much as I can get out a 'Firework' with Katy, I can get a 'Lil Freak' out with Usher. Or a 'Lay It Down' with Lloyd. I can get Caribbean as I did on 'Rio,' then go from there to working with No Doubt.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

Growing up in Miami, having these different cultures and being inspired in so many ways musically has let me have a very long career, 'cause just when you think I'm gonna do this type of record, I go and do something else.

When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.

I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

I love Unknown Mortal Orchestra, who are from New Zealand, living in Portland.

I'm trying to do different music, and I'm trying to be out of the box.