Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.

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.

Men die in battle women die in childbirth.

Our common humanity is neither a rationalization nor a deduction. It is as much a given as our nationality.

It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.

Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.

Fashion is much more than product. It's about entertainment and people feeling a part of something.

But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.