You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

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

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

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

We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

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.