Sting Quotes

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

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

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

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

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

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

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

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.

Let your soul be your pilot.

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

There's no religion but sex and music.

Turn the clock to zero, honey, we're starting up a brand new day.

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.

At night a candle's brighter than the sun

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.

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.

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

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

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.

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.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

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

Money's only important when you don't have any.

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

My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

If you love someone, set them free.

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

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 don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that's why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world.

It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.

I don't like singing before noon.

I think the time is right for yoga, we really are living in a very complex time - a time of great turmoil and change. Yoga is a good antidote to all that...It is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

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

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

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.

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.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.