The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.

I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into the music school there, so I studied communications and public policy, which actually were a greater engine for my career than a musical education would have been. If I had gotten into the music department at Berkeley, I'd probably be a timpanist in an orchestra right now.

People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.

That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.