Sting finds pleasure in winter’s chill

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“I'm surrounded by ghosts," Sting says. "I always have been."
"I think I'm very aware of the spirit world around us all the time, but I don't find that creepy. I find that rather comforting," the musician adds.
Swirling stories of "magical or ghostly" ideas inform the musician's new album, "If On a Winter's Night." The song "Soul Cake," for example, is an old British Halloween ditty Sting remembers from his childhood about cakes made to offer to the spirits of the dead.
Not to be mistaken for a holiday album -- no Rudolphs or carrot-nosed snowmen here -- the album is a folksy toast to winter, Sting's favourite time of year, and the imagination and reflection the season inspires.
Sting says he's bothered by the notion that the winter seasons may be getting shorter because of global warming: "I think the winter for the psychology of people who have lived in the northern hemisphere for thousands and thousands of years is incredibly important. We need this psychological time to recharge our batteries, to rethink, to reflect. Without that I think we would probably go crazy. We need the winter, so I worry greatly about global warming. We need to do something radical to stop it."
Sting says he hasn't read former Police drummer Stewart Copeland's autobiography, "Strange Things Happen," which includes colourful anecdotes highlighting the tension between the two bandmates. "It's on my pile," Sting says. "I have a lot of books to read." But is it on the top of the pile? "Of course!"

Source: CNN