Quotes By Sting

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

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

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.

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

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

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

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 realize that nothing's as it seems.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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 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.