Quotes from Annie Lennox

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...

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.

Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.

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

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.

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.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.

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

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.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

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.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

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.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

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.