Quotes By Annie Lennox

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.

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.

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

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

I see myself as a traveller.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

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.

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.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

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 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.

Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.

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

It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.