Sade Adu Quotes

My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

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

London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

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

I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.

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

I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.

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.

I'm always late.

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

I love writing songs.

I look a lot like my father and his mother.

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

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

I don't like looking outrageous.

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.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

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

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 long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!