Annie Lennox

“I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and...”

“I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding t...”

“The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.”

“I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.”

“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. Loo...”

“We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, ju...”

“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, a...”

“Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particul...”

“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.”

“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.”

“Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.”

“For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.”

“I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.”

“Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.”

“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.”

“Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.”

“Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.”

“I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.”

“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'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.”