You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

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.