If you make your living writing, and you can’t write anything, it’s over. It’s very frightening. – Sting
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead. – Sting
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. – Sting
I can’t fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation. – Sting
I don’t understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets. – Sting
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. – 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 feel this music has nurtured me as I’ve been immersing myself in it. I’ve felt supported by it. – Sting
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. – Sting
I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while. – Sting
I can’t really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don’t see why I should. – Sting
I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On. – Sting
I come from a family of losers, and I’ve rejected my family as something I don’t want to be like. – Sting
I’ve never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I’m pretty balanced. – Sting
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. – 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
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we’re singing about mortality, getting older. It’s an interesting time. – 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
