Sting Quotes

There's no religion but sex and music.

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

Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.

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

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

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.

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.

I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies.

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

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

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.

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

Yoga has enriched my life...It is a great way to offset the downsides of touring by bringing much-needed peace and sanity into what can be a hectic life. 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.

A gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say.

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

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

Melancholy is no bad thing.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

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.

Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

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.

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

Love is stronger than justice.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

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

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties.

What might save us, me and you, is if the Russians love their children too.

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

Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us.

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

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

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

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

When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.