Quotes by Sting

"It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"There's no religion but sex and music."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."