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For a guy who’s 73, Sting<\/strong> looks pretty good. But he says if he ever stops looking good, he’ll stop performing onstage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking to the <\/span>Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/em>, Sting says his fitness regimen includes yoga, swimming, working out and walking, but admits that 55% of the reason he does it is vanity \u2014 the other 45% is discipline.<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span>I don\u2019t look at pictures of myself. But you need enough professional vanity to go onstage in the first place,” he says. “I wouldn\u2019t want to go on if I was overweight or wearing spandex. If that happens to me, I\u2019m not going onstage. So the vanity is somewhat essential, and it\u2019s not particularly harmful.”<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m not spending hours of the day looking in the mirror or getting made up … or wearing a wig or a corset,” he adds.<\/p>\n

While Sting isn’t getting any younger, his music is finding new, younger audiences, because so many artists continue to sample it. Last year, Pink<\/strong> and Marshmello<\/strong> reworked his song “Fields of Gold” into the song “Dreaming<\/strong><\/a>,” for example.<\/p>\n

“[W]hen somebody wants to interpolate or whatever it\u2019s called, I never object because I always learn something about the song that I hadn\u2019t known or anticipated. And I get paid, so why not?” he says. “It keeps them current.”<\/p>\n

Sting also denies that the allegations against disgraced hip-hop mogul\u00a0Sean “Diddy” Combs\u00a0<\/strong>have somehow “tainted” the way he thinks of his most famous song, “Every Breath You Take.” Combs famously sampled that song in his #1 hit “I’ll Be Missing You<\/strong><\/a>.”<\/p>\n

“I mean, I don\u2019t know what went on [with Diddy],” he says. “But it doesn\u2019t taint the song at all for me. It\u2019s still my song.”<\/p>\n

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