My musical career was an accident.

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.

Just as the poet is a menace to conformity, he is also a constant threat to political dictators. He is always on the verge of blowing up the assembly line of political power.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

If we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The most important thing is to build a culture of peace.

Donald Trump is like Hillary Clinton said, a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons. You can't do it.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.

Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.