Eurythmics Quotes
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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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Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.
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I have a lot to be grateful for.
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I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
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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 was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
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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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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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Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
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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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There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status find it very, very hard to disclose their status, to live with that virus, and to even seek out the kind of information they need. This experience of going to South Africa a decade ago really woke me up to the scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, how it was affecting women and their children. I haven't been able to walk away from it.
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I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
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Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.
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I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.
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The very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's an appalling piece of evidence. It shows our complacency, our lack of passion or inclination to be authentic and really understand our true values. It's consistently depressing, but nevertheless, we carry on.
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Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.
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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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Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.
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When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.
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It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
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I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
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There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.
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We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.
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I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.