Happy Birthday Sting!

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

Mein Musiklehrer war die BBC. Die sendete damals nur ein einziges Musikprogramm, aber das war sehr vielfältig. Zuerst Beethovens Fünfte und gleich darauf die Beatles; schade, dass es heute nur noch Spartenkanäle gibt.

Love is stronger than justice.

Yoga ist defintiv besser als Warmsingen.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

Ich frage mich, wie ernst man jemanden nehmen kann, der sein Geld damit verdient, lumpige vier Saiten zu zupfen.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

Kokain ist Gottes Art und Weise, um dir mitzuteilen, daß du zuviel Geld hast.

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

He, Herr Pinochet, Sie haben eine bittere Saat gesät. Sie werden von ausländischem Geld gestützt. Eines Tages wird dieses Geld nicht mehr fließen. Kein Lohn mehr für Ihre Folterer. Kein Etat mehr für Ihre Waffen.

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

Tantrischer Sex heißt nicht, dass man dabei vögelt bis zum Umfallen.

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.

Ich habe meinen sechs Kindern gesagt, es gäbe nichts für sie zu erben. Ich würde vor meinem Tod alles Geld ausgeben. Sie sollen lernen, mehr zu sein als reiche Erben. Ich will keine Paris Hiltons heranziehen.

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.

Es gibt keine Religion außer Sex und Musik.

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

Ich bin arrogant genug, diesen Job ergriffen zu haben und demütig genug, ihn gut zu machen.

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

Die Leute sollen nicht denken, dass es sich um einen persönlichen Kreuzzug handelt.

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.

Männer beherrschen die Welt, und das ist der Grund, weshalb es so ein beschissenes Durcheinader gibt.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Wer glaubt, dass Musik immer gut sei, ist naiv. Militärmusik ist dazu gedacht, Leute vom Denken abzuhalten - ba-ba-marsch-marsch-töten-töten.

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.

Wenn du jemanden liebst, laß ihn frei!

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

Der Winter ist für mich die Jahreszeit der Ruhe und Harmonie.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

Rockmusik schließt den Kopf, statt ihn zu öffnen.

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

Ich glaube nicht, daß ich ohne Punk überhaupt den Einstieg ins Musik-Business geschafft hätte. Police hätten damals keine Chance gehabt. Punk hat für mich die Türen weit aufgestoßen.

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

Wenn ich musiziere, ist es wie eine Art Gebet. Ein Dank für diese Gabe.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

Ich selbst bin definitiv kein Bauer.

I don't like singing before noon.

Man muss die Leute auch mit Schwierigem konfrontieren. Das ist wie der erste Schluck Campari oder Kaffee - zuerst bitter, aber dann beginnt man, es zu lieben.

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

Die ganze Rockmusik von 1940 bis 1980 langweilt mich zu Tode. Da höre ich doch lieber den Schweinen beim Bumsen zu.

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

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

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.

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

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.

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

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

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

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

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

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

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

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

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.

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 have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

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

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to 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.

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 want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

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.

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.

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

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

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

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

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