Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.

I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard.

Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.

We know that society is better - more prosperous, more stable, more peaceful, more cohesive - when women's rights are respected and when women are valued, empowered, and lead the way in our communities.

Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.

We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.

If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.