Quotes from Sting

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

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.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.

Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

Money's only important when you don't have any.

Money is only important when you don't have any.

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

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

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

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

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

Hell is full of high court judges.

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 always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.