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.

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

My voice is an instrument.

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.

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