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.

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

It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

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

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.

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.