Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

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

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

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

I would hope it's better, but I'm actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I've been given.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

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.

My voice is an instrument.

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

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