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

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

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.

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

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

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.

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