The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

- David Knopfler

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work…

- David Knopfler

Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to over…

- David Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

- David Knopfler

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never wo…

- David Knopfler

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren wat…

- David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

- David Knopfler

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested cra…

- David Knopfler

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's mea…

- David Knopfler