Annie Lennox Quotes
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I have a lot to be grateful for.
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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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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.
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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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I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
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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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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 find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.
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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.
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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.
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I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.
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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.
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It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.
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If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.
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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.
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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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Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
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Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.
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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.
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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.
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Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.
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I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
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I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
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Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.