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

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

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.

To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, "Oh, what's hot!" I don't need to.

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 actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.