Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

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

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

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.

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.

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.