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

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

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

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

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.

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.