Sting can`t wait to turn 60
The musician reaches the landmark age on Sunday (02.10.11) and rather than be worried about reaching his seventh decade he can`t wait.
Sting - who is married to 57-year-old producer Trudie Styler, with whom he has four children - said: "I had the most fun in the previous decade, between 50 and 60. So I`m anticipating that the next one will be even better. I mean, why not?"
The Police star insists he isn`t worried about his own mortality and has learnt to appreciate since accepting it is "finite".
He explained: "When you reach a certain age, you realise that life is finite. You can be depressed by that, or you can say, `I`m going to appreciate every minute to its maximum potential.` "
The `Message In A Bottle` singer`s parents both died from cancer in their 50s and he accepts this had a profound effect on his opinion of death.
He added in an interview with the USA Today newspaper: "I`ve always been a bit saturnine, a serious person. An older person than I was in years. Perhaps that`s why I`m not feeling particularly strange about reaching 60."
Sting is set to join Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder and Lady Gaga, among others, for a concert at New York`s Beacon Theatre on Saturday (01.10.11) to raise money for poverty charity the Robin Hood Foundation.
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