A biography for Annie Lennoxhasn’t been written yet.
“Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.”
“We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.”
“I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.”
“I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.”
“I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.”
“Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody... as a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.”
“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.”
“I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.”
“Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.”
“I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.”
“HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.”
“I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.”
“I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.”
“Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.”