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.

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.

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.

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.

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.

The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

You have to be a master to teach.

His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.