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

- Sting

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

- Sting

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

- Sting

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

- Sting

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

- Sting

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

- Sting

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

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

- Sting

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

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

- Sting

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

- Sting

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

- Sting

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.

- Sting

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

- Sting

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

- Sting

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

- Sting

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.

- Sting

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

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

- Sting

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

- Sting