Eurythmics Quotes
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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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Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
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I'm not particularly attention-seeking.
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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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There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
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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 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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I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.
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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 watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.
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I've never been a social person.
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We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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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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Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.