Eurythmics Quotes
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If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.
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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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Success breeds the excitement to continue going.
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I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.
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I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
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I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.
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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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I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.
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You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
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I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
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I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
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I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
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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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I have a lot to be grateful for.
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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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Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.
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The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
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Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
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I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.
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Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.
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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.
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I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
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When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.
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You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.