Annie Lennox Quotes

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.

There must be an angel, Playing with my heart. And when I think that I'm alone, It seems there's more of us at home...

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.

I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.

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

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out.

Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.

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.

Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

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.

The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

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

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 was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There's darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you work your way towards it, and you do what it takes to get there.

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.

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

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.

There are so many things that we could do to change the world in so many aspects. There are people working in nonprofit organizations, tackling the issues that we so desperately need to face, while governments fail so appallingly.

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a mother, too. It's very simple. It's nothing complicated, it's not rocket science. It's about empathy. It's about understanding that what happens with one person is potentially what happens to you, and seeing yourself in someone else's shoes. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.

I chose a career in obstetrics and gynecology because there's something about honoring women, honoring the birth process. We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

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

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

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

It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.

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

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'm passionate about everything, actually. I'm passionate about life.

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.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.

When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

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