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'm not particularly attention-seeking.
One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.
I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.
I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
Women's issues have always been a part of my life.
I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.
I've never been a social person.
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.
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.
I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.
Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.
Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.
I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.
I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.
