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.

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

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

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.