It was very easy for me to dedicate myself to the care of mothers, help them have healthy babies, help them be healthy, help them in a place where they don't have opportunities. Success breeds the excitement to continue going. It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!