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

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

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

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

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