Helen Reddy

Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.