I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

Success breeds the excitement to continue going.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again.

I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.

The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity.