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

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.

Motivation gets you started, and inspiration keeps you going.

It is better to believe than to doubt.

I beg you take courage

Great man loves future and live in present as gift. Foolish one always stare and stuck on the past.

No bird ever looked at a plane in envy

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.

I was a severely conservative Republican governor.

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.