Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

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

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 lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

Move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy.

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

When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

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 brand.

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

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

I've made sacrifices. I'm not anti-fashion but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.

The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto the thick soupy red.

the rape willtear youin halfbut it will notend you

"Well-- I don’t know-- the cops might not respond too well to you looking through their windows with a telescope."

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard

I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof.

The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.