Sting
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.
Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.Collection: Honesty
You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.Collection: Being Yourself
A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.Collection: Inspirational
Let your soul be your pilot.Collection: Soul
I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.Collection: Pain
Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.Collection: Gratitude
Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.Collection: Philosophy
When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.Collection: Inspirational
Be yourself, no matter what they say.Collection: Being Yourself
I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.Collection: Music
Money's only important when you don't have any.Collection: Important
I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.Collection: Philosophy
At night a candle's brighter than the sunCollection: Night
I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies.Collection: Long Walks
One of the rewards of success is freedom. the ability to do whatever you like.Collection: Success
Turn the clock to zero, honey, we're starting up a brand new day.Collection: Zero
I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.Collection: Philosophy
Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.Collection: Voice
A gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say.Collection: Running
Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.Collection: Games
Money is only important when you don't have any.Collection: Important
Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.Collection: Space
I think the time is right for yoga, we really are living in a very complex time - a time of great turmoil and change. Yoga is a good antidote to all that...It is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.Collection: Yoga
Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.Collection: Children
Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.Collection: Yoga
Yoga has enriched my life...It is a great way to offset the downsides of touring by bringing much-needed peace and sanity into what can be a hectic life. Like music, yoga is a journey - one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.Collection: Yoga
Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.Collection: Children
Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.Collection: Crazy
What might save us, me and you, is if the Russians love their children too.Collection: Children
My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.Collection: Philosophy
I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.Collection: Honesty
If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.Collection: Children
How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?Collection: Peace
If you love someone, set them free.Collection: Love
They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.Collection: Reality
So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.Collection: Christmas
For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.Collection: Book
If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.Collection: Intelligent