I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.
From Sade Adu
London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.
I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
I don't like looking outrageous.
I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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?
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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.
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
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