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.

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

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

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

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.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.