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Interestingly, Bruce Hornsby just recently reiterated his interest in working with Mark. In one interview, Hornsby noted that his standard answer for who he would most like to collaborate with for an album is Mark, and in another, he said this:

Reporter: So you talk about not making a lasting career on pop radio, but according to the guy who just drove the last dumptruck full of hundred dollar bills up to your house, you're still doing pretty good on the royalties from the songs you wrote that other musicians put out on Top 40 radio.

Hornsby: Well, that's right. Having that early kind of success as a hit radio guy, it sets you up to go down different paths. And different people deal with that in different ways. Most people try and continue to have hits, almost everyone. But there are some exceptions. I think Mark Knopfler is sort of like me in the sense he had some early hits, but it was never about that. Most people who have hits, that's all they can do. But I'm an old music school guy. I'm interested in doing a lot of things, so I use it as a springboard to work with a lot of people. But I never went looking for that either. I just kept getting calls from all these great people who I admired who were fans of my music. So the Top 40 success got my music out there to an extent I started getting these calls. That was the best part of it for me--getting the calls from musicians I always admired who I ended up getting to work with.