I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider..

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a ….

Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovel….

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what..

I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time..

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition..

My father was a very difficult man..

The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time..

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people..

I love writing songs..

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good..

When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience..

There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned..

I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as l….

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity..

Move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy..

Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down..

I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person..

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again..

My musical career was an accident..

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music..