I'm horrified. I'm horrified because I know the ground must still be saturated.

Everything of value was up on things, but this water was just so high that it lifted everything up and everything was floating.

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.