I'm From A Working-class Background, And I've

My First Understanding Of Hiv And Aids Was Like Everybody Else From My Generation. In The Mid-'80s, We Heard About This, And It Was Terrifying, Because We Knew Nothing About How To Respond To It Appropriately, And We Didn't Really Understand About How The Virus Is Passed. There Was A Lot Of Misconception About That.

I Wouldn't Have Known When I Was A Teenager That When I Was Coming Up To Being A Sixty-year-old Woman That I'd Be Making Music, I'd Be Recording Music, Talking About Music, And Incorporating My Views On The World Into The Music-making. So It's A Very Rarefied Place To Be, And I'm Very Grateful For That.

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

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.

Everything Is Illusory. You Cannot Label Something And Feel That That Is The Beginning, Middle, And End Of It.