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

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

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

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….

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

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient..

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….

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

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

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

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins..

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

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the rec….

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

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….

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..

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to b….

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

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

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..