Sometimes, literally within a few minutes, you'd be off this amazing roaring scene and back at your hotel room, staring at the patten of the wallpaper. It's very surreal. You're back in your room, and it's dead quiet and really weird.

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.

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.

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

I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.

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