I Have A Lot To Be Grateful

Motherhood Was The Great Equaliser For Me; I Started To Identify With Everybody.

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'm Not A Christian, But I Think The Christian Message Is A Good One.

I Grew Up In A Middle Class Household With Parents, Went To Good Schools, And Never Feared For Anything, Never Wanted For Anything That Was Really Important. For All Of Us Living In This World, All Of Us Who Have The Resources, For Us To Not Dedicate Ourselves To Giving Something Back, Is To Leave The World A Lesser Place.

There's So Much Stigma Around Hiv/aids. It's A Challenging Issue, And The People That Already Have Been Tested And Know Their Status Find It Very, Very Hard To Disclose Their Status, To Live With That Virus, And To Even Seek Out The Kind Of Information They Need. This Experience Of Going To South Africa A Decade Ago Really Woke Me Up To The Scale Of The Hiv/aids Pandemic In Sub-saharan Africa, How It Was Affecting Women And Their Children. I Haven't Been Able To Walk Away From It.