Sting

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

“I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.”

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

“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.”

“The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.”

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

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

“If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant pastSecurity in human systems we're told will always always lastEmotions are the sail and blind faith is the mastWithout the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere”

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

“I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.”

“I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.”

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

“There's no religion but sex and music.”

“It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.”

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

“Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.”

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

“I think I'm a focus for international attention.”

“It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.”

“If "Manners maketh man," as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignorance and smileBe yourself, no matter what they”