“I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.”
Music“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.”
Music“I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.”
Music“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.”
Music“Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.”
Friendship“I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.”
Home“I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.”
Music“I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.”
Music“It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.”
Smile“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.”
Failure“I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.”
Movies“I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.”
Music“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.”
Family“Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it.”
Music“I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.”
Famous“I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.”
Fear“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.”
Change“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.”
Death“One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.”
Freedom“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.”
Freedom“There's no religion but sex and music.”
Music“I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.”
Family