Eurythmics Quotes
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I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.
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I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.
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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 am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.
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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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I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
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Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
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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 poetic side of me is Scottish.
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I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.
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When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.
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I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse.
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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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Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
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Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
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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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We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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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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I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
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I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.
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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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Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.
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Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.
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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.