Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.

When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.

The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity.

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There's darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you work your way towards it, and you do what it takes to get there.

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

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?