Top 225 Quotes & Sayings by Annie Lennox
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.
HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.
Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
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.
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
I'm not particularly attention-seeking.
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 love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.
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.
Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.
The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
I'm just an ordinary person.
I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.
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.
I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.
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.
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.
I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.
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.
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
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.
People ask me so many questions.
The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.
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.
Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
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 particularly important for women in developing countries.
I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.
I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.
If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it's not for me. I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.
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.
I see myself as a traveller.
I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.
I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.
I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.
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.
I've never been a social person.
I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
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.
You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.
I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.
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.
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
Women's issues have always been a part of my life.
I love to make music and stay grounded.
Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.
Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.
Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
I would love to meet a dodo.
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