My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

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

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.