Quotes By Sting

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 understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

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.

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

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.

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.