Annie Lennox

“One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.”

“There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.”

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

“I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.”

“It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.”

“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.”

“I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.”

“I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.”

“Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.”

“People ask me so many questions.”

“As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.”

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

“I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.”

“The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.”

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

“I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.”

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

“I'm just an ordinary person.”

“You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.”

“I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.”