03.04.10 Sting talks to BlackBook about why he no longer buys
Springsteen a birthday present...  Sting on Why He No Longer
Buys Springsteen B-Day Presents   So why a winter album?  I've
always loved snow, and the winter time, for me, is such a
creative time. It's a time to reflect. It's a miserable time for
a lot of people with long hours of darkness and frost, but also
it's the season of the imagination. People sit around telling
stories too. So I spent about six months researching the music
of the winter season, from every available source: classical
music, folk music, sacred music, secular music, pre-Christian
ideas even. Also as global warming takes place, it's flattening
out the seasons. And that I find worrying because
psychologically we need them.  This connection to winter, it's
not just an irrational love of big thick woolly jumpers?
[Laughs]I think we are always rushing around and we naturally
use winter as a time to slow down. Animals hibernate. We're
meant to reflect on the year before in order t