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 don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

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

People think that I don't like women.

My voice is an instrument.

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.