If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an existential angst that I have felt most of my life and still feel today, to not be overwhelmed by it. Music, in a way, is a great vehicle, a means by which one can express all these somewhat contradictory feelings.

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

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

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

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