I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.

Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.