To try to help people have babies in a healthy way and to celebrate the process of delivering a child which will be healthy is, I think, almost the b….

I love to make music and stay grounded..

Success breeds the excitement to continue going..

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion..

I chose a career in obstetrics and gynecology because there's something about honoring women, honoring the birth process. We all come from women, and….

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I h….

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries..

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesti….

You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over h….

I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There's darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you wor….

What's really interesting is when you get a brand-new wave that has no connection to anything else. It always reflects society. The flappers would cu….

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's tak….

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….

Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? ….

To be human is to have a whole spectrum of these experiences that arise within us..

It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed..

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, partic….

We need money to scale up the services that bring medicine to mothers. The United States government's doing that. There's a global fund that's provid….

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them..

If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going ….

We're all born, and if you're going to live to be elderly, you'll have gone through a life journey different than anyone else's. It's unique to you, ….