Quotes By Sting

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

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'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.

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.

There's no religion but sex and music.

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.

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

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

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

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 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.

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.