A Quote by Annie Lennox
Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
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I'm literally obsessed with Christmas, and it's been my dream ever since I was a little girl to make a Christmas album.
All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent. I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record. ... Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.
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