3 December 2020 Annie Lennox As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox 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.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox 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.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox 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.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox 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.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox 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.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox Money is a good thing and it’s obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn’t the art of photography but I don’t agree.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox It’s hard to tell how far women’s individuality has come in the past twenty years.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox 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. ‘
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox 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.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance – it’s the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox 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.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox I don’t have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox 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.
