David Coverdale Quotes

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.

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

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'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 think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.

With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

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

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

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

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.

People think that I don't like women.

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

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

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

The only one I really like is a song called Saccharine.

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.

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.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period ... I like to learn from the past ... not 'live' in it.

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

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

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.