There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.

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.

In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.

In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.

I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.