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The other thing that was very noticeable on that tour, not so much in the video, was the new young element that were coming to our shows... I started to see some very young people in the audience... maybe 14, 15, 16 years old.

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 doing for the rest of my life.

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

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 such a long time ago.

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

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 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 feeling.

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

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

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 become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

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 enough Whitesnake songs.

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

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