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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I look a lot like my father and his mother.