Quotes by Sting

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
• The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.
• There's no religion but sex and music.
• When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.
• Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
• Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.
• 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.
• 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 make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
• I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.
• I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
• I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
• It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
• I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.
• Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.
• It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
• Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
• Love is stronger than justice.
• Melancholy is no bad thing.
• My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
• I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
• 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 think I'm a focus for international attention.
• I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
• 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.
• 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 realize that nothing's as it seems.
• 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 think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
• 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 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 want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
• I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
• 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 can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
• 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 always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.
• I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
• I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
• I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
• I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
• I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
• 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.
• I don't like singing before noon.
• I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
• I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
• I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.
• 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.