I’d like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality.

Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.

I’m a member of no party, and have no ideology except a very old-fashioned one: liberty.

The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.

This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.