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May 02, 1994
Speech: THE BERKLEE SPEECH (1994)

"So I'm standing here in a strange hat and a strange, flowing gown in front of what looks very much like an audience, and I'm about to do something that I don't do very often, which is to make speeches in public. And I'm asking myself how I managed to end up here? This was never in any plan I'd outlined for myself. Nevertheless, I'm here and you're all expecting something coherent, and perhaps meaningful, to come out of my mouth. I'll try, but there are no guarantees. And I have to say I'm a little bit nervous. You might think this is strange for a man who makes his living playing in stadiums, but I often stand in the middle of a stadium full of people and ask myself the same question, "how the hell did I end up here?" The simple answer is I'm a musician. And for some reason I've never had any other ambition but to be a musician. So by way of explanation, I'll start at the beginning..."

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Mar 02, 1994
Interview: THE FORT LAUDERDALE SUN-SENTINEL (1994)

He seems happy on this recent afternoon; joking, laughing, talking. Sting is being everything but what he has been made out to be - a brooding, moody, self-important rock star. Sting considers an appropriate response. "Maybe, at some point... I was pretty moody, broody," he cautiously admits, as if walking through a minefield. "But I'm not some serious-minded, moody guy..."

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Feb 01, 1994
Interview: THE MIAMI HERALD (1994)

Sting without pain: Pop philosopher king lightens up without laying down his crown. It is an intriguing paradox, worthy of the Philosopher King of Pop. To most people, money and recognition bring confidence and certainty. To Sting, who seems to have burst onto the world stage fully formed, all brash attitude and raised eyebrow, success - nearly two decades of hits and international adulation - has brought a wise man's doubt. And in doubt, perhaps, some humility - and more success. For Sting, who appears at the Miami Arena on Wednesday, appropriately contrite after two embarrassing last-minute cancellations in Miami last spring, there is no irony in this...

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Jan 01, 1994
Interview: THE OBSERVER (1994)

Great rock bore or saviour of the planet? Barney Hoskyns visits Sting in his country manor and leaves wanting to marry him. On the drizzly Monday morning before Christmas, I'm sitting in an oak-panelled room in deepest Wiltshire, awaiting the entrance of the owner of a Jacobean pile called Lake House. I picture striding in from the rain like a jodhpured charmer from a Jilly Cooper novel, but the Italo Calvino and Cormac McCarthy books on the table do their bit to belie the rock star turned country squire cliches...

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Nov 01, 1993
Interview: Q (1993)

The heavy oak door groans open and you pad silently through the shadow-strewn passages, your tentative "hellos" reverberating throughout the teak-panelled chambers. Is anybody home? You wander into the study where an aromatic log fire crackles and an eerie stillness hangs in the air. A painting casually observes your entrance. Lying still on a vast sofa is the master of the house, his eyes shut, his mouth open. Is he... dead? Slowly, the eyelids part and the lips move to sleepily moisten themselves. "Fifteen years on the road," explains our drowsy, host. "It all caught up with me this morning..."

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Jul 01, 1993
Interview: THE SCOTTISH GAZETTE (1993)

Every little thing he does is politic. The rock singer Sting has lent his name to world-wide environmental causes, but playing in Istanbul he was more content to talk about music, reports Mary Miller. Approaching the top floor of Istanbul's Marmara Hotel, one hears a strange sound like birds' wings beating. It is the flick-click-flack of cameras. "That's enough," says a sharp female voice, and a wave of photographers barge towards the lifts, crusted with stands and bags and lenses, and odd waistcoats with multiple bulging pockets...

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Jun 02, 1993
Interview: THE PLAIN DEALER (1993)

Sting happy just to kick back: Sting has made films, records and headlines, been an actor on Broadway and an environmental activist. He is, quite simply, the richest, most famous man in history to have amassed his fortune from singing like a girl. Anyone in disagreement need only try to belt out 'Roxanne' in the shower...

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Jun 01, 1993
Interview: THE MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE (1993)

Sting, the singer, songwriter and actor, has gone from rock's Renaissance Man to its Family Man. He married Trudie Styler, his long-time companion, last August. Then he recorded his latest album, 'Ten Summoner's Tales', in the dining room of the farm in England where he and Styler live with their three children. Now he even has his oldest child, Joe, 16 (from his first marriage), in the road crew for his tour, which will visit Target Center Tuesday...

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Jun 01, 1993
Interview: RECORD COLLECTOR (1993)

Regarded by some as the thinking man's rock star, by others as pretentious, Sting has undoubtedly done his best to bring intelligent discussion to the ephemeral world of rock. But he is no longer king of the pop charts. Since splitting from the all-conquering Police eight years ago, his fortunes have revolved around albums and tours rather than singles and videos...

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May 02, 1993
Interview: THE VANCOUVER SUN (1993)

Sting's image is that he's Mr. Dour, the hardest thinking man in show business. It's an image born out of a lot of sombre, serious songs, and a lot of involvement with sombre, serious issues like the destruction of the Amazon Rain Forest. But it's an image that he doesn't really agree with. "I think that's a very simple generalization, that I'm Mr. Dour," offers the former Gordon Sumner over the phone from San Francisco...

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