There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.

I don't regret nuthin.

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.