It’s not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.
The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out.
Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance – it’s the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
I don’t feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.
I’m not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.
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.
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.
We all fight over what the label ‘feminism’ means but for me it’s about empowerment. It’s not about being more powerful than men – it’s about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It’s about very basic things. It’s not a badge like a fashion item.
Dying is easy, it’s living that scares me to death.
I’d rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.
The poetic side of me is Scottish.
I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.
I have a lot to be grateful for.
I’m not a saint. I’m not an angel. I’m a human being.
When I was younger I wish I’d known that what often seemed to be the ‘end of the world’ often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!
Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.
A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn’t always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I’m interested in now, particularly at my age.
If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it’s not for me. I’ve always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.
When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it’s working!