Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.

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.

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.

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

Don't believe everything you see on VH1.

That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.

Ive got Arabic music in my blood.

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

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a suddens seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

Do not focus on the problem.

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.

I have had so much public support.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.

There is no problem anywhere on the earth which cannot be solved better under Liberty than under any other system.

It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying.

I love doing the show more than anything. It's truly the most satisfying thing creatively that I've ever had in my life.