Quotes By Sting

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Love is stronger than justice.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I don't like singing before noon.

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