Zitat des Tages über Stachel / Sting:
But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.
We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.
The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.
There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.
It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.
Do I believe in aliens? No. I think there could be. Do I believe in God? No, I think there could be. Do I believe that Jesus actually existed? No. I think he could have done. A few things I've seen. A few things I've read. A few things I've watched have sparked my interest. Do I think it could all be rubbish? Yeah. I do.
There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.
I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.
Because we were all from Liverpool, we favored people who were street people.
I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.
Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?
I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.
It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.
I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well.
Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.
I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.
I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.
If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.
I did the pilot, and when they came through and said they were going to put it on the air, I had already some dates in the book with my band and so on. So Barry did the first one, he may have done a few more than the first one in the series, and I took it up from then.
I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that.
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.
I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'
In the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't important.
Being a woman is really crap.
I think I'm a girl's girl in the sense that I support women a lot, and I'm definitely all for girl power, but I think I'm quite a tomboy at heart - even though I love my fashion and dressing up, I think my essence is very boyish.
Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.
Women's bodies are amazing; what our bodies can do is incredible, so it's sad that we get distracted - all this stuff about being skinny, be this, be that - they're all distractions.
The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.
It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.