29 Quotes By Sting


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 on age

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

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 on change

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 on death

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 on failure

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 on family

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

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

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

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

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 on freedom

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
Sting on freedom

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

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 on home

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

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

There's no religion but sex and music.
Sting on music

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

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