I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.

Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

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.

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.