When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.

I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.