Sting对创作背景的评价看起来很直率...
"Well I've moved to the country for the first time in my life, and there are barley fields right next door. And I remember walking through one day and seeing this crop being moved by the wind and the sunshine, and it looked like there could have been people making love in the barley, or the wind seemed like it was making love to the barley, so I thought it was a great metaphor for love, and, its a kind of love song."
'Ten Summoner's Tales' Promotional Interview Disc, '93
"They wanted to do a version of the song so they wrote to me asking if I wanted to sing. I agreed, of course. Their version was an enormous success in France, Corsican music, by the way, is very popular in France. It was fun meeting them and I liked their interpretation."
On I Muvrini's version of the song... Publico, 10/99
"It wasn't huge in the charts but I like it. It was written and recorded at Lake House, and recorded here, and it's just a song about the landscape. I love the place. It takes a lot to get me away. It was the record company's idea to call the album 'Fields of Gold'. I argued against it at first, but I suppose it fits. Maybe it should have been 'Fields of Platinum'."
Independent On Sunday, 11/94
"Some of my most successful songs have been very simple; I reminded myself of that. One of the most successful was 'Fields of Gold', which is as straight a folk ballad as you'll find."
The Long Beach Press-Telegram, 11/94
的大麦，所以我认为这是一个伟大的爱情隐喻，以及它的一类的情歌。“
