I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

Sport develops your brain. It helps your learning. It's not an add-on at the end of the day.

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

I hate the fact that public schools like the one I went to have fantastic sports facilities, and state schools don't. That's not fair. That's outrageous.

My whole football life is pressure. If I don't get pressure from outside I put pressure on myself.

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

You can get a bit bored of finding out about yourself. I know nothing about politics, for instance. There's nothing that's stopped me picking up a newspaper in the past, and it's something I really should start to do.

When I left politics in the early Eighties and started writing and recording, my idea was that I could have an influence further down into other generations. That Natives could come into the culture through arts and music.