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'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

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

I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.

I actually think I play better now than I've ever played.

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

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

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.

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

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.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

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

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.

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

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

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

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

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.

If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

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A person who values their goals actually values their achievements.

My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

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My agent knows what I'm looking for. And I'm also looking for a new agent, too, so I'm putting it out there. Again, I'm not going to turn down every role, because there is no bad role, really. It's all what you bring to the role, but that traditional, 'Stand here and open a rope,' I'm not doing it.

Some celebrities like to get behind water conservation or helping the homeless get back on their feet. Me? Body grooming control: that's what I like to step behind 100 percent.

You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.

The archer sees the make upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

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