Quotes from Sting

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

There's no religion but sex and music.

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 can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it.

You have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great. If they don't, that's their problem.

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear I like my toast done on one side ..." ( Englishman in New York )

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse." ( History Will Teach Us Nothing )

If "Manners maketh man," as someone said Then he's the hero of the day It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile Be yourself, no matter what they say." ( Englishman in New York )

There is no monopoly of common sense On either side of the political fence We share the same biology Regardless of ideology Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too [...] There's no such thing as a winnable war It's a lie we don't believe anymore ..." ( The Russians )

a gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say..

Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.

Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us...

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past 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." ( History Will Teach Us Nothing )