In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.

Everything changes your life.

Screw the right thing to do. What do you want to do?

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

In a 100-miler, anything can happen. Speed isn't your biggest thing, you need to learn how to mentally get through it. It is very mental.

I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.

What I'm sowing today, I be reaping tomorrow So here's some joyful bars, to replace your sorrow.

With each movie I get better and I'm able to tell incredible stories that move people into motion.

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

I happen to have a public profile. Ditto newspaper editors. It's a result of what I do, not an end.