(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Robert Plant has a thousand pen pals because he cant bear to be alone.

The 62-year-old is best known for being in British rock band Led Zeppelin, with Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham. He insists his lengthy music career is the result of his inability to spend time on his own, as it has made him pressure others into teaming up with him on projects and ideas.

My whole deal is that I cant do anything alone. I have to go out and press-gang bright souls and spirits, he explained. Thats what I look for some kind of radiance, an innocent kindness. I know it sounds f**king hippy, but theres not a thing I go near that doesnt have that equation. Ive got a thousand pen pals. Some of them speak Tamasheq and live south of the Sahara.

Robert is glad hes the way he is as he thinks his constant quest to meet people has made him have a lot of unusual experiences. Its also opened his eyes to many different ways of life, and shown him what is really important.

I cant say Im fortunate because Ive put a lot into it, but my rewards are not the gongs and the Lifetime Achievement awards, he told Q magazine. Theyre in the seeing of what happens. (C) Cover Media