David Coverdale

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.

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

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.

People think that I don't like women.

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

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.

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.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

It's all about love.

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

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.