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'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.

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 cannot desire to be great when you cannot even focus on 8 hours of work a day.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

Either we shake one another's hands in joy at he victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life, and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are ours.