Sting Quotes

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

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

I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.

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

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

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.

Let your soul be your pilot.

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

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.

Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.

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

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.

Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

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

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

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

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

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

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

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 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.

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

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear I like my toast done on one side.

I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.

How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

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.

Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

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

Hell is full of high court judges.

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

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.

The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

If you love somebody, set them free.

Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.

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

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.

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.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

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

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.