Biography

Was with Eurythmics. She has a four-octave voice.

Her closest friend is The Pretenders' lead singer Chrissie Hynde.

Left Eurythmics in 1990 to work with the homeless, and did not speak to David A. Stewart again until 1997, after the death of a mutual friend. In 1999 they reunited for The Eurythmics' "Peace" album.

Gave all Eurythmics' profits on the 1999 Peacetour to Amnesty International and Greenpeace.

Plays piano and flute.

[on being private about her life] What did you expect? I'm human; I feel what anybody else feels. 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. 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.

Historically, the image of women in pop music has been so totally ornamental - sexual, but predictably so. It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years. Certainly, if you look at the pop charts as a measuring stick, you'd think it hasn't come far at all. But women do feel less like victims now than they did twenty years ago. At heart I'm a feminist, but I'm also a feminist for men. Men should be liberated from the roles that are foisted on them also.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

On being awarded the OBE: As somewhat of a renegade, it either means I've done something terribly right--or they've done something terribly wrong. In any case, whatever powers that be have deemed me worthy of such a recognition, I'm getting my fake leopard pillbox hat dusted and ready.

If people like your music you can't guarantee they're going to love you.