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.

I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '