I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

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

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

I don't like singing before noon.