Quotes By Sting

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.