There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn’t tell it like it was.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven’t. I am grateful to them for that.

My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick!

We’ll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

Because of the fashion, the young people don’t have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can’t earn any...

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was...

There’s no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I’m not; I’m cult level.

I’ve been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I’ve been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are...

I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn’t be suitable for me to live with her all the time.

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.

I’ll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

It’s sort of a feeling of power onstage. It’s really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have...

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

You know, that’s it, there’s no turning back because what it’s made of is so fine. It’s like crystal, you know, it’s like the purest crystal.

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I’ve always felt about that decision – it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting...

My mother had all these scrap books she kept and the reviews, I was also fortunate to have a list of every gig I’ve ever played in my life.

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 was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.

But reality television is here to stay.

Of course, I want to sell this record – there’s no point making it otherwise.

I haven’t shaved my private parts, but I dyed them once for a laugh! They looked more ginger, though!

What can you do? You’ve gotta move on.

I didn’t actually realise what apartheid meant. I’m probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and...

I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium.

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight....

I’d been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you...

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

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...

In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you’ll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that’s more just going out and playing...

No, I’ve never thought that I was gay. And that’s not something you think. It’s something you know.

Music is part of God’s universe.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

The difference with me is that I did inhale.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 – in certain parts of the world anyway.

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.