Sade Adu famous quotes

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

#Emotion

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.
-- Sade Adu

#Fashion #Attitude #Sacrifice

What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.
-- Sade Adu

#Kissing #Blow #Thrill

There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
-- Sade Adu

#Class #Prestige #Structure

I look a lot like my father and his mother.
-- Sade Adu

#Mother #Father #Looks

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

#Cities #Race #People

I don't like looking outrageous.
-- Sade Adu

I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
-- Sade Adu

#Song #Singing

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

#Class #Difficult

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

#Musician

I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
-- Sade Adu

#Way

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.
-- Sade Adu

#Nice #Thug #Long

I love writing songs.
-- Sade Adu

#Song #Writing

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

#Anxiety #Feels

Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.
-- Sade Adu

#Radio #Interviews

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

#Mother #Strong #Feels

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
-- Sade Adu

#Song #People #Purpose

My musical career was an accident.
-- Sade Adu

#Careers #Musical #Accidents

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
-- Sade Adu

#People #Kind #Young

When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
-- Sade Adu

#Connections #Audience

People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.
-- Sade Adu

#Views #People #Cameras

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?
-- Sade Adu

#Cooking #Lovely #World

When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.
-- Sade Adu

#Play #Want #Height

Move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy.
-- Sade Adu

#Inspirational #Moving #Space

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.
-- Sade Adu

#People #Attention #Begging

My father was a very difficult man.
-- Sade Adu

#Father #Men #Difficult

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

#Stories #Littles

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

#Training #Uneducated

My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
-- Sade Adu

#Mother #Daughter #Broads

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.
-- Sade Adu

#Art #College #Thinking

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

#Ambition #People #My Ambition

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.
-- Sade Adu

#Records #Sake #Selling

I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
-- Sade Adu

#Bored #Kind #Persons

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

#Thinking #Outsiders #Feels

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

#Way #Understated #Wacky

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

#People #Shy #Journalist

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

#Attention #Fame #Uneasy

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

#Real #Perception

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

#Female #Singers

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

#Years #Albums #Be Good

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

#Dynasty #Want #Littles