Annie Lennox Quotes

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox

Change, Today, Yourself

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
Annie Lennox

Death, Living, Easy

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.
Annie Lennox

Best, Future, Past

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.
Annie Lennox

Men, Powerful, Fight

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.
Annie Lennox

Long, Themselves, Support

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.
Annie Lennox

Women, Understand, Why

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.
Annie Lennox

Music, Gay, Human

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.
Annie Lennox

Job, Worry, Next

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.
Annie Lennox

Place, Question

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.
Annie Lennox

Successful, Tell, Point

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
Annie Lennox

Hiv, Boundaries, Aids

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
Annie Lennox

Music, Thought, Platform

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.
Annie Lennox

Music, Powerful, Emotions

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. '
Annie Lennox

Women, Free, Value

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.
Annie Lennox

Life, Hurt, Mother

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.
Annie Lennox

Time, Mother, Woman

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
Annie Lennox

Art, Fine, Phone

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.
Annie Lennox

Best, Children, Woman

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.
Annie Lennox

Hate, Avoid, Shopping

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.
Annie Lennox

Children, Sure, Fast

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.
Annie Lennox

Time, Person, Find

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
Annie Lennox

Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.
Annie Lennox

Passion, Whatever

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.
Annie Lennox

Music, Age, Pretty

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.
Annie Lennox

Home, Point, Lived

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Born: December 25, 1954

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