I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

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

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.

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

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.

Last time I was sober, man I felt bad, Worst hangover that I ever had. It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night, Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul.

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.

Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.

Experience is something you get when you don't really want it.

I think the reason why I'm the person who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger.

I don't even think about fame at all.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

It's important to have women in leadership positions, because our experiences are different from those of the men we serve with and that helps us identify problems we can fix.