To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

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.

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.

I don't like looking outrageous.

Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift ourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health—body, mind, and spirit.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize he will still for months wake up in the night with a start worrying about food and rent.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there.

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

Excuses excuse us from fulfilling our potential.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.