I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

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.

You're good salesman, if you make people buyproduct they don't need.

I let the happy times slip through my fingers and gripped on to the sad times as if they were my heart's desire

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

The Indian team does not need any best wishes - they are going to win anyway. I have been close to Sourav Ganguly, and I hope he does well in the World Cup.

Lack of sleep is only bad if you have to drive, or think, or talk, or move.

TRUST in GOD and then GO and DO.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.