Longtime Police drummer Stewart Copeland is writing a new book entitled "Strange Things Happen: A Life With the Police, Polo, and Pygmies".

olice drummer Stewart Copeland doesn't want to make his new book, "Strange Things Happen: A Life With the Police, Polo, and Pygmies" (HarperStudio) a conventional autobiography. "It really isn't because of all the stuff I left out, the boring stuff -- I was born here, then I moved there, then I went to this school, then that school...Who cares?" Copeland tells Billboard.com. "These are war stories." Copeland's aim for the book is to portray an accurate recount of the tension within the band. "I think I did succeed in clarifying the conflict in the band," he explains. "It has always been too easy to assume it was just a clash of egos, and that was always very frustrating for me because it's so far from the truth. In fact, we are very selfless in the Police, all three of us; we really leave our egos at the door and go in there and take a pasting from each other -- and we take it. That's what life in the Police was all about. It was always a clash of musical ideals...We were fighting over the right things."

Copeland adds that he hopes "Strange Things Happen" also portrays what he feels is a more insightful and accurate view of the famous volatility that is part of the Police's legend.

In the book Copeland also covers his youth growing up in the Middle East and England with a father in the CIA, and his other musical endeavors.

When asked if he thinks the Police will ever reunite again Copeland responded : "Who knows, I mean, I intend to be on the planet here for another 50 years; who knows what'll happen. To escape from the Police we had to melt down the cage and...dismantle the huge behemoth that grew up around the band. The three of us had to get away from it. As to whether or not we do it again, who knows."

Copeland is currently writing a symphony for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra which will open in 2010.