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

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

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.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

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

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.