If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

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.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

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

For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.

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

Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.