You can live with almost any condition if you’re living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.
I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism – I hate all that.
Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won’t.
I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.
There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There’s darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you work your way towards it, and you do what it takes to get there.
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.
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. ’
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
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.
When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don’t know what’s around the corner.
Those in the developing world have so few rights – we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
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.
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.
The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.
If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances – you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist.
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.