Andy Summers

“I think rock records tend to be very expensive.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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