I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.

You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice, he's blossomed'.

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

You've seen what you've seen you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

A library is a hospital for the mind.

In this life at least, Our fate is rarely epic.Maybe just as well, Impervious heroes we are not…

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

Americans want to go to heaven without dying.

To understand the truth is to do the truth.

I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.