Quotes By Sting

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.