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

Someone once asked me, `How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, `With both hands, of course...'

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

Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.

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.

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

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