Annie Lennox Quotes

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

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.

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

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

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.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.

I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

When I was younger I wish I'd known that what often seemed to be the 'end of the world' often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.

Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

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.

The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.

There must be an angel, Playing with my heart. And when I think that I'm alone, It seems there's more of us at home...

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy!

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.

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

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

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

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

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

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.

Success breeds the excitement to continue going.

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.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.

Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.