I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.

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

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

To be human is to have a whole spectrum of these experiences that arise within us.