It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
Sting
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.
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.
I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
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.
Love is stronger than justice.
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.
One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
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.
I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
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.
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.
I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
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.
There's no religion but sex and music.
The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
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.
Melancholy is no bad thing.
I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.
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.
Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
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 exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
I don't like singing before noon.
Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
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.
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.
I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
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.
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 hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
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 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.
I think I'm a focus for international attention.
I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.
I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
I realize that nothing's as it seems.
I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.
I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.
