Sting Quotes

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

I live in South Africa. I'm proud to live there. I've always said I want to be a comedian from South Africa in the world. I will stay in places for a bit here and there and pop into New York for a while, maybe stay in London for a year, but my home will always be South Africa. I enjoy it too much.

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

I do a very good impersonation of an American - I went to high school here - but I've spent most of my life in Russia.

[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's like home is all those things combined.

Never feeling really at home in any one country is always challenging. You realise that you have to lean on yourself and to own it.

When I was 12 years old, living in Cairo, my parents enrolled me in the American school. Most of the Americans there appeared oddly stifled, determined to remain, if not physically then sentimentally, back in the United States.

People don't know what it's like being the foreigner until they are one.

I love boys with English accents.

I'm not foreign enough to play foreigners... I have sort of a mid-Atlantic British accent that puts me in the middle of everything, so they don't know quite where to put me.

When I go to Korea and they say, 'Sing like a Korean person,' I can't do it. I didn't grow up with that sound.

I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.

You still miss Turkish people, talking Turkish, you still miss your culture. That's why New York is the best place to be because everywhere you go there's Turkish people, your friends are here, you can go to eat Turkish food every day.

I'm always saying normal things, and people usually understand me, but they're like, 'Where are you from?!'

I love London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris - there are a million places I could imagine I like, but N.Y. is home.

I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I moved to the States when I was 19. I was very impressed early on by being around people who spoke my language and ate the same food and listened to the same music, dressed the same. But then you look around and, you know, you're not in Puerto Rico.

Every time I get in an Uber in L.A., they're like, 'Oh, great accent. Are you from Australia?' I constantly have to repeat myself when I'm in North America because no one understands a word I'm saying.

I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.

My accent is very confused.

I went back to Hong Kong for the first time in 17 years and I was culture shocked in Hong Kong.

I was 12 years old when I first moved to New York, and at that age, you're trying to find yourself. It was hard being so different from everyone I was around, and I felt that nobody could really understand me because everyone was American, and I was this little English girl with an accent.

We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.