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.

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

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.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

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

The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.