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I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on Â£3 a week.

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

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

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

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

I like where I live here, in London.

I would love to meet a dodo.

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.

Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.

The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

Well I thought my time was over, but it's only just begun.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.

I was never much of a one to win prizes ... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.

I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.

Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.

In a way, it's all down to perception, isn't it? And everyone has their own take on everything.

I'm not particularly attention-seeking.

I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.

I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.

I'm passionate about everything, actually. I'm passionate about life.

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.

I want to be true to who I am.

Success breeds the excitement to continue going.

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.

When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.

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

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

I see myself as a traveller.

I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.

I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.

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

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.

Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

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

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

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. '

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.

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

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.