Quotes By Annie Lennox

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

People ask me so many questions.

I like where I live here, in London.

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.

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and no, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

I've never been a social person.

I'm not particularly attention-seeking.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

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.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

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.

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.