Sting Quotes (73 Quotes)

Melancholy is no bad thing.

That's what Guy has done, he's very groundbreaking in what he does, he's a very quick creative mind.

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.

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.

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.

It is a great way for people around the world to come together and raise money for charity

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

I think I mentioned to Bob Geldof I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

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My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

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

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 don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

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

The concept of going on a world tour with only one promoter was a new one for me, but one that was extremely economically advantageous,

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

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

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.

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

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

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

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 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.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

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 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.

Sting also agreed quickly to participate in the album, and was the first one to complete his track. No matter how busy you are, when Elton asked me to do something, I said, 'Drop everything, I'll do it for my friend,' ... Because I respect him and love him greatly.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

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

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.

I would gaze at your face the whole night though.I'd go out of my mind but for you.

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

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

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

You know, it's like watching a soap opera, ... I've never seen (a soap) but they're addicting, I guess, and I think wrestling is sort of the same thing.

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

I don't like singing before noon.

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.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

Love is stronger than justice.

Songwriting is a kind of therapy for both the writer and the listener if you choose to use it that way . When you see that stuff help other people thats great and wonderful confirmation that youre doing the right thing.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

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

At times, the album has a vaguely familiar feel, because it seems as if Peter Gabriel and Sting walked down this path in the late '80s -- Gabriel with So, ... Nothing Like The Sun.