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Women's Issues Have Always Been A Part Of My Life. My Goal Is To Bring The Word 'feminism' Back Into The Zeitgeist And Reframe It.

I Understand What It Is For A Woman To Want To Protect Their Children And Give Them The Best They Can.

We Think That This Is Just Our World And We Don't Know What Other People Are Thinking. Music Actually Is A Phenomenal Connector In That Respect. It's A Special Language That Defines Certain Boundaries And Connects People In A Particular Way, A Very Emotional Way, I Have Found.

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.

I Don't Want To Be Owned By A Corporation And Obliged To Make A Certain Type Of Album. I Want To Be Free.