I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. Annie Lennox More Quotes by Annie Lennox More Quotes From Annie Lennox I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There's darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you work your way towards it, and you do what it takes to get there. Annie Lennox light darkness opportunity We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found. Annie Lennox our-world emotional thinking I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself. Annie Lennox barbie-dolls passive want 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. Annie Lennox issues children people It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed. Annie Lennox harder bed Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it. Annie Lennox beginning-middle-and-end labels ends The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation, we had a lot of strikes going on, on a national scale, and a lot of discontent. That was reflected in the music. Annie Lennox unemployment scene kingdoms More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but actually, they have their own interpretation of it, or they put a label on you. Annie Lennox labels people thinking I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory. Annie Lennox gay numbers men I want to be true to who I am. Annie Lennox being-true who-i-am want Right now is the critical time to invest further in the global response, it is a unique opportunity in history and we cannot let it slip by. Annie Lennox health-news Business as usual by any donor therefore cannot be an option. Annie Lennox health-news We must keep the word feminism, we all have a role to play. Annie Lennox world Without men it's going to be much more challenging to advance our goals. We must be in this together. Annie Lennox world Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf. Annie Lennox think having-children speak children Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody... 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. Annie Lennox me you mother life I see myself as a traveller. Annie Lennox i-see see myself traveller 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. Annie Lennox place look pain beauty
