Sting
I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.Collection: Movies
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.Collection: Music
There's no religion but sex and music.Collection: Religion
I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.Collection: Famous
Love is stronger than justice.Collection: Love
One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.Collection: Freedom
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.Collection: Death
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.Collection: Failure
I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.Collection: Family
I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.Collection: Fitness
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.Collection: Friendship
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.Collection: Smile
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.Collection: Age
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.Collection: Change
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.
I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.
I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.
I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.
I realize that nothing's as it seems.
I don't like singing before noon.
I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.
The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.
I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
Melancholy is no bad thing.
The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.
The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.
I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.
I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
I think I'm a focus for international attention.
I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.
I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.