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

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.

You don’t want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn’t make sense to anybody.

I don’t go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

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

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.

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

You’re on the stage and you’ve got all those people yelling at you, so you better be right in the moment, reacting to that. It’s completely live and organic. Even 20 years later, it’s the same thing. You may be even better on your instrument. Hopefully, you are.

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

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