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.

Emmy brings such a wealth of experience that it’s like a director having the finest actress for a film. What is on the page is given a real living dimension and a character who you...

I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I’d also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn’t have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow...

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I’ve always rebelled against theory.

Everybody has their own ideas of Shangri-La … I tried to teach myself to enjoy the present, enjoy the now,

I finally got a job teaching English in a college, which I was delighted to have because it proved to be a real steadying influence.

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.

Sometimes you’re the window; Sometimes you’re the bug.

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.

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I’d work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original...

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues

I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There’s something magical about them.

I’m a maker of ballads right prettyI write them right here in the streetYou can buy them all over the cityyours for a penny a sheetI’m a word pecker out of the printersout of the...

After a while, though, the group just wasn’t a good vehicle for the songs I’d written.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

This empty kitchen’s whereI’d while away the hoursJust next to my old chairYou’d usually have some flowersThe shelves of booksEven the picture hooksEverything is goneBut my heart is hanging onIf this old neighborhoodSurvived us both...

And another thing: Stay responsive to any environment that comes along, and try to reflect what you feel in a wide variety of styles and songs.

I’m also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

There’s so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

Each song has its own secret that’s different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws...

I’m not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

We prayed these wars would end all wars –In war we know is no romance.”(Done With Bonaparte)

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

The drinking dens are spilling outThere’s staggering in the squareThere’s lads and lasses falling aboutAnd a crackling in the airDown around the dungeon doorsThe shelters and the queuesEverybody’s looking forSomebody’s arms to fall intoAnd it’s...

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little...

Telegraph RoadA long time ago came a man on a trackWalking thirty miles with a pack on his backAnd he put down his load where he thought it was the bestMade a home in the...

I don’t like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you....

We used to play in a theater club in London called The King’s Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we’d be ready to go and really get it on for about an...

As soon as you hear her taking the line, you see the character. She’s not just a girl singing anymore; she’s much more representative of something female. I think that’s a depth that comes from...

I don’t really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we’re doing is so varied.