I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.

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

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

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

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.

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.