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.

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

My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.

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

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

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.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.