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

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 would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

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

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.

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

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.