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

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.

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

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.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.