I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

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.