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

Im better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.

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

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

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.

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

You're on the stage and you've got all those people yelling at you, so you better be right in the moment, reacting to that. It's completely live and organic. Even 20 years later, it's the same thing. You may be even better on your instrument. Hopefully, you are.