Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

Believe it or not, people went so far as to suggest that I might not be able to write songs anymore because now I am married. I tried to explain again that there are other things to write about besides boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy breaks up with girl, girl is sad.

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing.

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.