Annie Lennox Quotes
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There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
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Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.
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I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.
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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!
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I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.
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We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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I've never been a social person.
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I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.
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I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.
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Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
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In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones who don't come in for care. If a mother in the United States or in Europe or in the UK comes to care and gets her medicines, she will have an HIV negative baby. Most people don't know that.
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My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.
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The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity.
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Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.
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There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.
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My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.
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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.
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In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.
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Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage; it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.
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Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
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Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.
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Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
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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.
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If you do nothing, if a mother doesn't come for care, if she breastfeeds her baby, the chances of the baby getting HIV are about 40%. So it's about the difference between 40% and zero. This is almost totally preventable. But it requires mothers coming for care and getting the medicines they need, and getting the education and support they need.