The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties.

If you love somebody, set them free.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.