Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.

I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

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

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.