The Financial Times interview - The Ballad of Sting and Trudie...
May 09, 2025
you’re competing against yourself. How did I write that 25 years ago? You have to keep reminding yourself that you don’t create a masterpiece just like that.” Eight years of writer’s block ended in 2011 when he started work on The Last Ship, a musical inspired by the shipbuilding community he grew up around. “Songwriters tend to be navel-gazing. What do I write about? Me. Writing for other characters freed me up. That relief was profound.”
Read the full interview in the Financial Times
