Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient..

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experienc….

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly..

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become..

With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enoug….

I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was suc….

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human..

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed..

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that..

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down..

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feelin….

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything..

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be do….

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself..

Someone once asked me, `How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, `With both hands, of course...'.

Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems..

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it..

I've always thought live albums were cop-outs..

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek..

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience..

Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world..