Quotes from Andy Summers

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

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.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

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.

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

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

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.