A biography for Stinghasn’t been written yet.
“An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.”
“You could say I lost my faith in science and progressYou could say I lost my belief in the holy ChurchYou could say I lost my sense of directionYou could say all of this and worse, ...Some would say I was a lost man in a lost worldYou could say I lost my faith in the people on TVYou could say I'd lost my belief in our politiciansThey all seemed like game show hosts to me...I never saw no miracle of scienceThat didn't go from a blessing to a curseI never saw no military solutionThat didn't always end up as something worse--Excerpts from "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You”
“I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.”
“I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.”
“Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.”
“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.”
“Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.”
“I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.”
“I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.”
“I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.”
“I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.”
“I don't drink coffee I take tea my dearI like my toast done on one sid”
“If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.”
“I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.”
“I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.”
“I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.”
“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 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.”
“Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.”
“I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.”