I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones who don't come in for care. If a mother in the United States or in Europe or in the UK comes to care and gets her medicines, she will have an HIV negative baby. Most people don't know that.

I like where I live here, in London.