Sting

Quote: I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil. [ Sting]

Quote: Love is stronger than justice. [ Sting]

Quote: I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria. [ Sting]

Quote: 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]

Quote: I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should. [ Sting]

Quote: 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]

Quote: 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]

Quote: 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]

Quote: 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]

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

Quote: I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big. [ Sting]

Quote: I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear. [ Sting]

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

Quote: 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]

Quote: One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like. [ Sting]

Quote: Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success. [ Sting]

Quote: 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]

Quote: I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On. [ Sting]

Quote: There's no religion but sex and music. [ Sting]

Quote: I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly. [ Sting]

Quote: 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]

Quote: I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set. [ Sting]

Quote: I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it. [ Sting]

Quote: I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap. [ Sting]

Quote: Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it. [ Sting]

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