I never saw no military solution That didn't always end up as something worse

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

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

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

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

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

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

The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.

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

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

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.

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

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

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

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

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

When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

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

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

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

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

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.

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

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.

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.

A gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say.

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

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

Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.

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

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.

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

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.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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