Mark Knopfler

“I always thought of the guitar as a tool.”

“Every time you pick up a guitar, you're looking for something.”

“I just make the music, and people have to make of it what they will.”

“A song is a discovery.”

“I write songs on an acoustic guitar, and I think they should be able to be played on an acoustic guitar.”

“The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by several million people in the world.”

“I think a song should have a life of its own.”

“Guitar is a divine instrument.”

“For me, the whole of music is a song.”

“I think the whole point about music is being able to share it.”

“What I'm trying to do is make a music that's really honest.”

“I'm not a rock star. I'm a musician.”

“You can have a great singer and a great songwriter, but that doesn't make you a great band.”

“You have to be in a state of play to design.”

“When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space cadet.”

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