I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.
I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?
I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.
I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.
I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.
I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.
I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.
We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.
I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.
I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.
I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.
The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.
Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage; it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
I'm not particularly attention-seeking.
Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.
I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.
I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.
I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.
