Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.

What’s the difference?” I asked him. “Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?”“One is a choice, and one is not.

But there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying.

I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.

I'm having fun and I'm not even trying to do much. Everything is coming together.

The gospel is one of harmony, unity, and agreement. It must be presented in love, and with glad tidings, by those who are calm.

It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.

You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

I no longer need my power tie, because I always have, my power finger.

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.