Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

Life for me is about movement.

I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there's blues and there's country...Then you go back from country into American music...and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually.

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.