I don't really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we're doing is so varied.

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.

What are you going to do with all that dark?Find a way to glow in it.

Riley, you're the Devil, and I'd gladly sell you my soul, if you didn't already own it..." - Luc Wade

I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.

A man's main job is to protect his woman from her desire to 'get bangs' every other month.

I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.

The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.

No talking. Talking doesn't play football, talking isn't going to make you practice harder or play harder.

Many people take exception to me and say that I'm doing black magic and things they can't do at church. But I'm doing magic that started their church.

You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.

What is aught but as 'tis valued?