Quotes By Annie Lennox

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm just an ordinary person.

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

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

I see myself as a traveller.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

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

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 would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.

I have a lot to be grateful for.

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.