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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.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
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I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
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Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
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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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Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
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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 was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.
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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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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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Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
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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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Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
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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 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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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.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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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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Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.
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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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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.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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There must be an angel, Playing with my heart. And when I think that I'm alone, It seems there's more of us at home...
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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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