There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.
I'm not getting old I'm evolving.
Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
Some things get better with age. Like me.
I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.
I was number 1 on the who's likely to die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.
It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I'll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It's a little embarrassing to admit it; I'm an old man now. It's important to me though.
My life is full of broken halos.
Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.
