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

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.

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

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

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

People think that I don't like women.