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.

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 best part of healthcare.

I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.

I'm passionate about everything, actually. I'm passionate about life.

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.

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

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.