Quotes By Sting

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

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.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

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.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

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.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

There's no religion but sex and music.

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.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

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.

Love is stronger than justice.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

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 feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

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 have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

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