Quotes from Sting

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

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

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

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.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga.

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.

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 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 was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

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

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

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.

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.

Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

For an instant, love can transform the world.