In a recent interview with Vulture, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant talked about his experience from 2012 when he watched Heart’s Ann Wilson performing ”Stairway To Heaver” at the Kennedy Center Honors.

The singer said he felt like a “voyeur” watching Wilson performing the song, more Plant added that the classic song is “no longer ours and neither should it be”.

Read below what the singer said:

“Look at the company I was keeping that night. Who was I sitting next to? What was going on? I didn’t even know the people anymore. How did we move across from being a British blues band to this ridiculous achievement? Well, ridiculous is a multifarious term.

“We all stood back at the end of the sessions, reeling from the transitions throughout the song. But ”Stairway To Heaven” has its own life. Later I often felt estranged. It began intimate and vulnerable and sincere, and then the years carried on. It was no longer ours and neither should it be. Now it’s out there driving people to distraction and then maybe driving a hard bargain.

“I’ve left so much of it all behind. And that night I was watching a reenactment, clever, well-intentioned, and respectful. I was in the gallery peering and following an excellent display. Me and my contribution to it all were hung out to dry in the land of timeless tributes, so far from the cover and the scene, and so far from the home that we’ve given it.

”I felt estranged from the whole deal, from the song, and the fact that the years did carry it through. It had its own impetus. I watched it go. It was like a beautiful feather, balloon, or bubble. Something out of a clay pipe that had been blown with soap.”

Plant added:

“It was just something that I’d never, ever thought I would look at from this gallery. I didn’t ever see myself as smarting around seeing an artist’s impression of it. I knew it was coming, the Kennedy Center told us to expect something, but I didn’t know how it was going to be.

“It was a spectacular performance. I’m now a voyeur. I’m not responsible for it anymore. I’m not in guitar shops being told not to do it. I’m not going down the aisle at a wedding playing it with a flute. I love the song. It came upon me and stripped away all the years of being a part of all that.

“It just rubbed it right back to the bone. Because maybe it was all over for us a long time before it was all over. It was definitely all over without John. I mean that. We’re talking here about one song from 50-plus years ago. It’s just a magnificent performance to watch and it kills me every time. It kills me in two or three different ways. It’s just like, Oh my God.”