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

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.

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 experience as much of life as we can.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

None of These Will Come Easy.

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

I've started to really become aware of the world we live in, what's really going on.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.