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
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.
The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
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.
One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.
I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
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.
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.
I think I'm a focus for international attention.
I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
I don't like singing before noon.
I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.
When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
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.
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.
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
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.
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.
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 made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.
I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.
I realize that nothing's as it seems.
The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.
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.
Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
Melancholy is no bad thing.
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.
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 was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
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 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 really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
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 hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
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 can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
