If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.

We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

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

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.