Stewart can be quite the outspoken fellow. Here are just some of my favorite Copeland observations & words of wisdom from the years.

"(Sting)'s superior to me because I'm less humble than he is. I'm an arrogant twat." (The Police: Around the World)

"You have to walk tall in the saddle when paddling in the weird places." (The Rhythmatist, film version)

"There are problems with fame: like buying underwear at Woolworth's and disappointing the girl behind the counter because you didn't get extra large." (The Police, by James Milton)

"My favourite thing about Message In A Bottle, apart from all the money we made off it, was hearing cover bands trying to play my drum parts. I'd overdubbed about six different parts, and to watch some band in a Holiday Inn struggling to play all those overdubs still gives me great joy. Now that is really Schadenfreude."

"A lot of my songs Sting won't sing, and the songs of mine he will sing he charges the words." (The Police, by James Milton)

On recording "Dont Stand So Close to Me '86": "Well, my horse did a forward somersault and I was forced to dismount. I was entirely venomless, sedated as I was by painkillers, but I managed (accidentally, I swear!) to fatally insult Sting. We exchanged long, mutually abusive letters and took turns in the studio recording over each other's parts. Finally, after wasting several weeks, Miles said, 'Look, children, you will both have to share the same room to mix this track.' I had no problem with this (it was Sting who had stormed out) and was there for the mix at 10 o'clock sharp. We proceeded to mix, while waiting all day for work of our esteemed leader. I was just getting hrumphy and beginning to make speeches when Sting showed up with a rose, a hug, and a 12-inch switchblade." (From the Message in a Box liner notes)

Modern Drummer magazine: "What should the readers of Modern Drummer be reading?"
Stewart:"How many of them do you think can read?" (MD, 2001)

"Heavy metal has to do with young males with more testosterone than body hair. It's a body hair substitute." (MD, 2001)

"I'm always copping licks. But I don't quite get them right. You know, I stole a lot of reggae licks, but I screwed them all up! They're not what they started out as." (MD, 2001)

On Outlandos d'Amour: "Three blond heads. I prefer Regatta de Blanc." (MD, 2001)

On recording Ghost in the Machine: "The rot begins to fester. Some of the best tracks we recorded, actually, were on that record. The magic of the band is still there, it never died. But the personalities and everything else began to encroach. We were in this incredible heaven to record, but the band turned it into hell." (MD, 2001)

On Syncronicity: "Who cares." (MD, 2001)