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.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.

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.

Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

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