Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever it was, sometimes it had me really, really shaking in my shoes, and I decided that I was going to do it no matter what. And, of course, the critic is there, and afterwards, there's this, "Was it good enough? Was it really all I wanted to say?"

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.