I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.

I think it's [the AIDS fight] the most important and most pressing one - I think it's a global emergency and I think in a way we all have to address it and engage with it because I think it's the biggest threat to the human race that we have ever faced.

I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.