Quotes By Sting

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

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.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

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.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

I don't like singing before noon.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

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.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

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 always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

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.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

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.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

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 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 come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

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.

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.