Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

To try to help people have babies in a healthy way and to celebrate the process of delivering a child which will be healthy is, I think, almost the best part of healthcare.

Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

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.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.