Sting

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

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

“Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.”

“I don't like singing before noon.”

“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.”

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

“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 realize that nothing's as it seems.”

“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.”

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

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

“I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.”

“Melancholy is no bad thing.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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 was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.”

“The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.”