I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.
I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
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.
There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
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.
Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.
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.
I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.
Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.
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.
I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.
I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.
I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.
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.
Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.
I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.
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.
Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.
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.
I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.
When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.
I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.
You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'
I'm just an ordinary person.
The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!
The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.
I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.
I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.
I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
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.
I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.
I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.
If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.
I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.
I love to make music and stay grounded.
I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.
Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.
I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
