Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.

I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.

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

Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.

We need money to scale up the services that bring medicine to mothers. The United States government's doing that. There's a global fund that's providing money. mothers2mothers provides for mothers who come in who don't have education, who don't have support. mothers2mothers employs mothers with HIV, mothers who were patients recently in the very same facilities. We take those mothers who were patients who've had their babies, we bring them back, we train them, we pay them, to be health care professionals.

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.

I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions.