I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

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.

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.

Last time I was sober, man I felt bad, Worst hangover that I ever had. It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night, Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.

You know, considering your IQ, you're really socially retarded sometimes.

I'd rather die holding on to the love I believe in, than to live embracing a love that's a lie.

Success in business depends more on relationships than spreadsheets.

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.

The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.

[Apollo 7 was] an expedition of the mind, not of the heart.

I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

Motivation is the spark that lights the fire of knowledge and fuels the engine of accomplishment, it maximizes and maintains momentum