When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

I grew up in a middle class household with parents, went to good schools, and never feared for anything, never wanted for anything that was really important. For all of us living in this world, all of us who have the resources, for us to not dedicate ourselves to giving something back, is to leave the world a lesser place.

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

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

There must be an angel, Playing with my heart. And when I think that I'm alone, It seems there's more of us at home...

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.