Eurythmics Quotes
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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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Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.
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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.
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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'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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I know that Annie Lennox has saved my life quite a few times, and I never forget that.
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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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I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.
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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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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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Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
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I've never been a social person.
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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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Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
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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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I'm not particularly attention-seeking.
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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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Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
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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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I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.
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It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.