Eurythmics Quotes
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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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Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
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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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There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
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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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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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Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.
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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 want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about 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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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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Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
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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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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.
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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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I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.
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I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.
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Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
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I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
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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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We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
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Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.
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I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.