Top 35 Sade Adu Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy.”

— Sade Adu

2. “I think you only really feel like an outsider if you’ve been an insider.”

— Sade Adu

3. “My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.”

— Sade Adu

4. “My father was a very difficult man.”

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5. “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

6. “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

7. “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

8. “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

9. “I love writing songs.”

— Sade Adu

10. “I can’t see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.”

— Sade Adu

11. “My musical career was an accident.”

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12. “I’ve never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.”

— Sade Adu

13. “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

14. “I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.”

— Sade Adu

15. “I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.”

— Sade Adu

16. “I just aspire to pick people up. That’s my ambition.”

— Sade Adu

17. “To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don’t feel it, you have to pretend.”

— Sade Adu

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18. “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

19. “I’m not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.”

— Sade Adu

20. “I look a lot like my father and his mother.”

— Sade Adu

21. “I’m uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.”

— Sade Adu

22. “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

23. “I don’t get easily bored. I’m not that kind of person.”

— Sade Adu

24. “The anxiety I feel when I’m late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I’m on time.”

— Sade Adu

25. “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

26. “I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.”

— Sade Adu

27. “I’ve got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.”

— Sade Adu

28. “I’m not over the top; I’m not wacky. I’m fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.”

— Sade Adu

29. “I don’t like looking outrageous.”

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30. “I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.”

— Sade Adu

31. “If you’re only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.”

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32. “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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33. “When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.”

— Sade Adu

34. “Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.”

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35. “When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.”

— Sade Adu

36. “Radio interviews are really snappy and I’m just bad at that. I just close down.”

— Sade Adu