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

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

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"I would like to play with electronic keyboards again."

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"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."

Time

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

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"I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music."

Music

"Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too."

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"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."

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

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

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