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.

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

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

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.

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

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

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

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.

Someone once asked me, 'How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, 'With both hands, of course...'

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

Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

Your brain is not formed when you're born. You have to build your brain.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

I have two syndicated radio shows though United Stations Radio Network.

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

There's little comfort in the wise

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.