I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.

With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.