Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.