Led Zeppelin rocker Robert Plant has admitted it was a "daunting" prospect writing his new album.
The solo record 'Lullaby and...the Ceaseless Roar' is his first featuring original material for some time, and he says he had initial worries about slipping back into songwriting.
Speaking to Billboard, Robert said: "All I know is I can do it. There are times when I don't do it and I wonder whether or not I still can... So to be returning to the gift again is slightly daunting, but really it's like a current. It just flowed.
"I had things to talk about, so I wasn't just thinking about some romantic moment sitting in a barroom or anything like that because that doesn't suit where I come from, what I do."
The singer returned to his Welsh border home to record the tracks and was delighted with his surroundings.
"In a way, ironically, being a guy who sang in Led Zeppelin and stuff, I actually just returned to the misty mountains to be honest...
"The Welsh have a totally different culture. They're quite lovely players. But once upon a time their stories were way different than the Anglo-Saxon stories. There were stories of changelings and all this stuff that's inspired by the landscape.
"It's there in this current record, too. I'm here and my feet, my body, my energy, it goes deep into the ground."
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