David Quotes

Coaching sets the pace to get the best out of others while giving the best of yourself.

Frequently, the difference between success and failure is the resolve to stick to your plan long enough to win.

Never lower your standards just to fill a position. You will pay for it later.

The truth is that problems won't just go away.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I take care of my voice; I'm working out the way I would do my body, so that stays in shape.

The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.

People think that I don't like women.

Half the world is below average and it's not going to get any better.

It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.

Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.

I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.

I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

Long live the new flesh.

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

More blood! More blood!

Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.

At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible.

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.

Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes... I promptly fell in love with her...

After all the time we [people] spent saying look, war is a stupid way to solve stuff - oh, you're not trying to solve stuff. You're trying to make money.

Elections aren't supposed to be for sale... it's that simple.

Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.

I can't legislate a song into being, it just will not happen for me.

I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.

CSNY is a little like putting seven pounds of stuff in a three pound bag.

Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you.

I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer!

Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.

The movie I've seen the most times, boy, that's a tough one. It would have to be a toss-up between Apocalypse Now and the first Star Wars. I think the first Star Wars.

I recently attended a pro-drug rally... in my basement.

I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another.

I'm concerned about how and why there is no gun control.

I'm a professional comic. Whether you think I'm funny or not, that's, again, subjective.

Hopefully people will be reinventing comedy forever and ever. This is just what I do, and it's a type of comedy.

You can't just yell jokes at people.

I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I dont believe in God.

And it's one more shitty thing to write about somebody, in between getting really, really, really upset at female Ghostbusters and Gamergate, and the things that really matter.

I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.

I don't want to do 20 minutes on Donald Trump. I want to do 10 minutes and move on. I wouldn't even do that with a live show, because I don't want it to feel like "An Evening Of Political Comedy."

Florida was the low point.The entire state, yep. I'm not sure I'd go back.

I'm not going to benefit from free college education, but I think all those things are good for the country.

There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?"