“I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.”
Change
“Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.”
ChristmasAll Quotes by Annie Lennox
“Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.”
Age“I love to make music and stay grounded.”
Music“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.”
Beauty“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.”
Women“Women's issues have always been a part of my life.”
Women“Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.”
Beauty“I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.”
Music“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.”
Women“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, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.”
Men“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.”
Home“It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.”
Women“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.”
Age“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.”
Best“Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.”
Christmas“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. '”
Women“As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.”
Society“Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.”
Death“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 that this is a global picture.”
Power“I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.”
History