I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.
- Sting
Give, Spent, Wales, Monarchy
I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
- Sting
Exist, Almost, State, Hysteria
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
- Sting
Song, Never, Most, Most Difficult Thing
I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
- Sting
Work, Pain, I Am, Turmoil
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
- Sting
Singing, Interesting, About, Gabriel
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.
- Sting
England, Very, Learned, Accent
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.
- Sting
Love, Think, Larger, Claim
I don't like singing before noon.
- Sting
Singing, Like, Before, Noon
The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.
- Sting
Americana, Most, Super, Kitsch
Melancholy is no bad thing.
- Sting
Bad, Bad Thing, Thing, Melancholy
I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
- Sting
Fitness, Through, Been, Regimes
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.
- Sting
Needs, Musical, Tail, Mongrel
I think I'm a focus for international attention.
- Sting
Focus, Think, I Think, International
I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.
- Sting
Fly, Flag, Depends, Monogamy
It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.
- Sting
Game, Image, Very, Enough People
I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
- Sting
Think, Private, I Think, Group
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
- Sting
Music, Set, Plays, Parameters
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
- Sting
Rock, Most, Which, Middle-Aged
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.
- Sting
Which, Commodity, Charts, Case
The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
- Sting
More, Date, About, Worried
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.
- Sting
Death, Living, More, Living Life
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.
- Sting
Touched, Took, Brought, Catholic
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
Love, Stronger, Than, Love Is
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
- Sting
Children, Age, Old, Posture
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
- Sting
Change, My Life, Why, Accommodate
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
- Sting
Big, Either, Properly, Big Problem
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
- Sting
Work, Big, Really, Elephant
I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.
- Sting
Student, Someone, Speaking, Reached
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
- Sting
Living, Over, Very, Frightening
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.
- Sting
Give, Images, Retain, Confusing
One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
- Sting
Freedom, Success Is, Like, Rewards
Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
- Sting
Grow, Right, Shows, Peter
I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
- Sting
Myself, Been, Felt, Supported
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.
- Sting
My Life, Big, Trauma, Manufacture
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.
- Sting
Journey, Practice, Making, Deeper
I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
- Sting
England, Last, Spent, Tour
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.
- Sting
Process, Will, Given, Logical
I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
- Sting
Service, Spiritual Life, Lip, Paid
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.
- Sting
Him, Uncle, Mine, Attic
I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.
- Sting
American, Understand, Like, Crash
I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
- Sting
Want, Like, Rejected, Losers
I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
- Sting
Pretty, Maybe, Am, Generally
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
- Sting
Meditation, Before, Would, Introduced
I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
- Sting
Made, Before, Had, Police
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
- Sting
Mad, Afraid, Very, Being Mad
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.
- Sting
People, Go, Sense, Physically
Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.
- Sting
Intellectually, Republican
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
- Sting
Friendship, Always, Given, Choice
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.
- Sting
Think, Always, I Think, Impression
I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.
- Sting
Teach, Two, Years, Taught
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.
- Sting
Love, Family, My Life, Adore
There's no religion but sex and music.
- Sting
Music, Religion, Sex
Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
- Sting
Like, Very, Actually, Spiritual Life
I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.
- Sting
Always, Performer, Fit, Perform
I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
- Sting
Famous, Big, Overnight, Nowhere
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.
- Sting
Music, Like, Almost, Yoga
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
- Sting
Ignorance, Man, Takes, Suffer
When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.
- Sting
Best, World, Still, Running
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