When You Get To Be Nearly 60,

I'm Not Living My Life Under The Spotlight For Anybody.

The General Population Still Thinks Hiv Is Something That Came In The 80s And Went Away, Or That It Only Affects The Gay Population Or Intravenous Drug Users.

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.

I Identify With Other Women Because Of My Gender, And I Identify With Other Women If They Are Mothers Because I'm A Mother, Too. It's Very Simple. It's Nothing Complicated, It's Not Rocket Science. It's About Empathy. It's About Understanding That What Happens With One Person Is Potentially What Happens To You, And Seeing Yourself In Someone Else's Shoes. Fundamentally, We Are All In The Same Place: We're Born, We Live, And We're Going To Die. In Between, We'll Have Joy And We'll Have Sadness.

Although I Have Lived In London, I Have Never Really Considered London My Home Because It Was Always Going To Be A Stopping-off Point For Me, And It Has Been Too.