I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I've got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I'm never very far away from them. I swear I only ever get a couple days when I'm away from a guitar, and I never like it! There's always one close by, and I play every day. Or I'll be working on something in the studio and play around a bit. It's an extension of me, really.

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

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

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

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

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

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.