Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

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.

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.

Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

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

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.