When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.
From Annie Lennox
Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.
It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the 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.
Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
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.
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