What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.

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

Ive also just come off a year and a half playing acoustic shows which is fantastic for the hands, and changes your head a little bit.

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.

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.