2 Quotes & Sayings By Sting Police

"I wrote it about ten years ago and had just put it away for a while. I kind of forgot about it and then when we were coming up with ideas for this album, I decided to get that song out of the drawer and play it for our drummer Stewart Copeland. He was really into it, so we started working on it, adding different parts to it until we had a fantastic piece of music." So they dug up "Synchronicity II" in the drawer and used it in the making of 'Synchronicity'.

"We played around with a couple of different vocal ideas," John continues, "and then we kept coming back to that one verse which really seemed to encapsulate what we wanted to say about our relationship with technology." The result is an album that's half rock/half pop, spanning genres from funk to pop to rap. "It's all about how technology has taken over our lives," says Sting. "'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic' is a song about how modern technology has taken over your life," he continues.

"It's not even about Facebook or Twitter or anything like that. It's more about how everything you do is documented somewhere, you have a record of everything you do in your life." As soon as Sting heard the finished track he knew he had something special on his hands: "I have been playing this song for twenty years," he states proudly. "'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic' is my favourite song on the album—it was one of the last things I wrote for this project." As well as writing songs, Sting produced four tracks himself (he called upon long-time collaborator Jimmy Iovine).

"When I was writing this album," he explains, "I did not want to write any songs that were specifically about technology or computers. I wanted to write songs that were more universal; songs like 'Synchronicity', which are sort of like little mini sermons—little mini speeches—about how technology has changed our lives in great ways but also some ways that are