My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.

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.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

We want people to come into our country, but they have to come into our country legally and properly vetted, and in a manner that serves the national interest.

I like to dry brush which is really detoxifying for the skin. Exercise is also really important for me for balance and to get those endorphins going.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

None of us could believe what Trump was doing - because no one had ever seen anyone do it that way before.

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.

The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist