Sade Adu Quotes
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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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.
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I'm always late.
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I love writing songs.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
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I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
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Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.
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I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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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.
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Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.
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My musical career was an accident.
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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.
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I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.
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I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
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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.