“When 'Raw Like Sushi' came out in the U.S., I wasn't considered to be ...” — Neneh Cherry Quote

“When 'Raw Like Sushi' came out in the U.S., I wasn't considered to be black enough. They didn't really know where to put me. The music wasn't 'black black' sounding. It wasn't R&B; it wasn't straight up hip-hop, although obviously in that dimension and world.”

“I'm a bit of a rebel, and I always will be.”

“I always found very strong images for my songwriting in New York.”

“What is a society without a heroic dimension?”

“God is not subject to the dimension of time. He dwells in eternity.”

“By dimension, we simply mean an independent direction in which, in principle, you can move; in which motion can take place. In an everyday world, we have left-right as one dimension; we have back-forth as a second one; and we have up-down as a third.”