We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.

Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.

Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.

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.

In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.

I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned.

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.