Cruising around on YouTube I found this video for the Alison Krauss-Robert Plant collaborative album “Raising Sand.” The remarkable part? Robert Plant talks about how intimidated he was, saying that he is used to hiding behind a microphone.

It’s funny. In the back of my head, I guess I assumed that after a certain point nothing would phase you any longer, that you’d become immune to intimidation, at least in your field.

But Robert Plant is just a guy with a great voice and a lot of history. He’s not Superman.

It’s depressing. There isn’t really a rainbow with a pot of self-assurance at the end of it, a pot of contentment. There’s always doubt.

Damn.