I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought..

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 find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered..

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being..

Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him..

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week..

Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end t….

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know..

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul..

At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever it was, sometimes it h….

I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody..

I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it..

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community..

I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleas….

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning get….

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..

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..

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically..

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own..

The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, v….

If you do nothing, if a mother doesn't come for care, if she breastfeeds her baby, the chances of the baby getting HIV are about 40%. So it's about t….