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

- Sade Adu

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

- Sade Adu

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

- Sade Adu

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…

- Sade Adu

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 …

- Sade Adu

My father was a very difficult man.

- Sade Adu

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

- Sade Adu

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

- Sade Adu

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

- Sade Adu