“I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.”
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.”
BeautyAll Quotes by Annie Lennox
“As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.”
Society“It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.”
Women“I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.”
Music“Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.”
Death“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“Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.”
Money“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“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“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“Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.”
Women“I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.”
Poetry“I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.”
Death“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”
Change“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“Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.”
Christmas“Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.”
Beauty“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 don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.”
Change“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