Annie Quotes

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

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.

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

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

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.

I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.

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.

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 love to make music and stay grounded.

I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

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

I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.

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

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.

I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.

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.

Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

I like where I live here, in London.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

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 used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse.

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

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.

The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.

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

Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.

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.

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

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

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

I'm not particularly attention-seeking.

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.