Annie Lennox Quotes
"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
(Related: Successful)
"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
(Related: Age, Music, Now, Pretty)
"The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and no, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in."
- Annie Lennox
(Related: Future, Moments, Past, Right)
"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
(Related: Music, People, Emotion, Emotions)
"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
(Related: Children, Example, World)
"I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves."
- Annie Lennox
(Related: Thought, Cause, Interest, Man, Media)
"I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well."
- Annie Lennox
(Related: Poetry, Children, Want)
"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."
- Annie Lennox
(Related: Dreams, Life, Death, Expectations, Illness, Loss, Old, Separation, Years)
"Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death."
- Annie Lennox
(Related: Death, Dying, Living)
"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world."
- Annie Lennox
(Related: Change, Kindness, Today, World)
"There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t."
- Annie Lennox
(Related: Artists)
"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
(Related: Music, Being, Community, Gay, May)