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.

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.

I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I'm in Europe. I'm always shocked that I'm still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

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

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

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