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

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

I don't really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we're doing is so varied.

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.

A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.