Quotes By Annie Lennox

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.

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

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 love to make music and stay grounded.

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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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