Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if they are desperate enough.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.