Top 30 Sting Quotes

Love is stronger than justice.

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.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

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

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

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

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.

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

I don’t like singing before noon.

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

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

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

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

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It’s a journey I’m making. I’m heading that way.

I think I’m a focus for international attention.

I’ve only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

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

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I’m given that choice, to go the way that’s not safe.

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

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.

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

There’s no religion but sex and music.

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

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 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 realize that nothing’s as it seems.

Intellectually I’m probably a Republican.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.