Sting Quotes - Page 3

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

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

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 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.

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

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.