I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.

I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse.

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.