A biography for David Coverdalehasn’t been written yet.
“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 loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.”
“What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.”
“You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.”
“Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.”
“I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.”
“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.”
“If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.”
“Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.”
“I take care of my voice; I'm working out the way I would do my body, so that stays in shape.”
“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.”
“My voice is an instrument.”
“I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.”
“People think that I don't like women.”
“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.”
“Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.”
“Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.”
“I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.”
“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.”
“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.”