It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.

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

I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I've got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I'm never very far away from them. I swear I only ever get a couple days when I'm away from a guitar, and I never like it! There's always one close by, and I play every day. Or I'll be working on something in the studio and play around a bit. It's an extension of me, really.

Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.

It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

Commercial record has never interested me. It's amazing I was in a band like The Police that had such phenomenal commercial success. Part of what made The Police what it was was that we didn't all come in with obvious mainstream musical tastes. We were a rock band and somehow we had to make rock music, but it was informed by a lot of things outside of the mainstream for sure.