Sting Quotes

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've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

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

Love is stronger than justice.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

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

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

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

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

There's no religion but sex and music.

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.

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

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

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run

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.