Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

Success breeds the excitement to continue going.

We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.

Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

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?"

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 very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's an appalling piece of evidence. It shows our complacency, our lack of passion or inclination to be authentic and really understand our true values. It's consistently depressing, but nevertheless, we carry on.