Quotes By Annie Lennox

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

I would love to meet a dodo.

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

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

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 like where I live here, in London.

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.

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

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

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

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.

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

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.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

I've never been a social person.

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.