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

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

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 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.

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.

People think that I don't like women.

When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.