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My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.

There should be laughter after pain, there should be sunlight after rain, these things have always been the same, so why worry now?
[Why Worry?]

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

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

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

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality

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

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

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

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

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

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.

I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

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

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.

No money in our jackets and our jeans are torn,
Your hands are cold but your lips are warm.

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.

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.

Sometimes you're the windshield. Sometimes your the bug.

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

And what have you got at the end of the day?
What have you got to take away?

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