There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing. It depends on what you're doing, not just who you're doing.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.