David Coverdale Quotes

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

I've been every way there is to be.

My whole life has been a search for finding myself, pretty much.

There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even with those two things, wants to figure out what my place in the world is. How to engage with it and whether my life has any meaning.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.