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.

Ive got Arabic music in my blood.

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

Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

I don't have any sympathy for the subject matter, [but] I have great respect for rap artists. In fact, not for the rap artists, but the people who make the music over which they rap. Rap music - the music itself is incredible - but [the people that make the music] are hardly ever credited.

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.