Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

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.

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.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

I can't make you love me, if you don't.

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.

You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together.

What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.