Quotes By Annie Lennox

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

People ask me so many questions.

I like where I live here, in London.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and no, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I've never been a social person.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

I'm not particularly attention-seeking.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.