Robert Plant Quotes

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

People speculate or think what they want to think, but it's been really fun for me to kind of explore what I want to explore.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

California was special. It's a place where I learned how to be adventurous, both in style and fashion, but also in terms of the way I think.

I love to experiment, to push myself, and I want people to accept me in roles that I have never attempted before.

It's exhilerating to be able to explore my own voice.

I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.

I want to challenge myself in new mediums; I want to leave myself open to different things.

I got to try things that I might've been uncomfortable doing if I had been in a larger setting with a studio and producers looking at me.

When people can be vulnerable to one another then you're kind of giving people permission to really be yourself and not try to impress all the time and you get into more interesting work. You're being real and you're not afraid to mess up or seem weird.

Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

Success will come. Or it won't. But I think you can only make a go at it in a big way by fully being yourself and taking risks. People can feel risks.

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free

Dancing allows me to go away and not have to think of what I’m doing next. That is the opportunity for me to really escape. I like to say I have a good sense of judgment, but I know that not everybody does. The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I’ll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won’t know until I do it.

Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.