If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that..

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 think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving forc….

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well..

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years..

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us..

I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying t….

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 t….

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I sp….

In a way, it's all down to perception, isn't it? And everyone has their own take on everything..

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage..

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 peopl….

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it..

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is..

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I….

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 v….

I grew up in a middle class household with parents, went to good schools, and never feared for anything, never wanted for anything that was really im….

I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps..

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice..

Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted..

Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary..