The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

There are so many things that we could do to change the world in so many aspects. There are people working in nonprofit organizations, tackling the issues that we so desperately need to face, while governments fail so appallingly.

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.

When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.