I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

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

To be labeled as a strong woman when you feel vulnerable is a strange place to be, because then you're, like, "Oh, I have to be strong now. But I don't feel strong. I feel alienated. I feel isolated. I feel that things are very surreal, and they're not authentic, and this is all just very overwhelming."

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.