We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

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

I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.

I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory.