Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

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

We're all born, and if you're going to live to be elderly, you'll have gone through a life journey different than anyone else's. It's unique to you, but you'll have some common themes.

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.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.