I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

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

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

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

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

I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.

I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.