Annie Lennox Quotes
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People ask me so many questions.
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When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!
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I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.
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Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
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Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.
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I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?
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I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.
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Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.
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I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.
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When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.
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If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist.
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The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation, we had a lot of strikes going on, on a national scale, and a lot of discontent. That was reflected in the music.
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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.
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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.
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What's really interesting is when you get a brand-new wave that has no connection to anything else. It always reflects society. The flappers would cut the dresses and make them looser, they smoked, their hair was short. It was a rebellion against the corset and the Edwardian era.
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Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.
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I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.
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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.
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I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
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I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
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I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.
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Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
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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.
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I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.