Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

I’m aware of my actions and responsible for them, so I don’t owe any explanation to anyone.

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

Well, I don't really eat cereal that much because on Weight Watchers it's not worth the points.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

Okay, outside," the clerk said. "Conversation outside. Bye! Have a nice night!

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance!