HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

I would love to meet a dodo.

I see myself as a traveller.

I'm just an ordinary person.

I want to be true to who I am.

I have a lot to be grateful for.

People ask me so many questions.

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

I like where I live here, in London.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

I'm not particularly attention-seeking.

Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

Success breeds the excitement to continue going.

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

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

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

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

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

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

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

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

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

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

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

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

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

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.

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

If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.

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

I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.

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

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

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

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

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

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

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

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

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

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

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

The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out.

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

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

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