HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.

To be human is to have a whole spectrum of these experiences that arise within us.

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.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.