Quotes from David Coverdale

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

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

The other thing that was very noticeable on that tour, not so much in the video, was the new young element that were coming to our shows... I started to see some very young people in the audience... maybe 14, 15, 16 years old.

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

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

I'm embracing new technology to record my songs, and it's a wonderful way to interact with people who love Whitesnake and help spread the gospel of the 'Snake, and I'm having fun doing it.

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 take care of my voice; I'm working out the way I would do my body, so that stays in shape.

I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.