I would love to meet a dodo.
— Annie Lennox
People ask me so many questions.
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 just an ordinary person.
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.
I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.
Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.
Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.
Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.
I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
I see myself as a traveller.
I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.
Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
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.
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.
HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
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.
Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.
There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
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.
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.
I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.
