Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.
I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.
I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
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.
Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.
I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.
I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.
I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.
For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
I like where I live here, in London.
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.
If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '
If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.
I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.
Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
