Annie Lennox Quotes
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I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.
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I have a lot to be grateful for.
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I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
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I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.
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I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
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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.
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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.
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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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I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
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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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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.
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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.
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I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
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I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
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It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
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Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.
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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 come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.
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Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.
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The very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's an appalling piece of evidence. It shows our complacency, our lack of passion or inclination to be authentic and really understand our true values. It's consistently depressing, but nevertheless, we carry on.
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There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status find it very, very hard to disclose their status, to live with that virus, and to even seek out the kind of information they need. This experience of going to South Africa a decade ago really woke me up to the scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, how it was affecting women and their children. I haven't been able to walk away from it.
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I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
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Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.
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Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.