The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

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

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

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

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.

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 not particularly attention-seeking.