Quotes By Annie Lennox

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 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.

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.

I've never been a social person.

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'm not particularly attention-seeking.

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

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.

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.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

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

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

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

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

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.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

I'm just an ordinary person.