A biography for Annie Lennoxhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.”
“When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.”
“If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it's not for me. I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.”
“Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?”
“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.”
“Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.”
“I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.”
“I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.”
“In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.”
“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 see myself as a traveller.”
“Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.”
“I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.”
“Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.”
“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.”
“I have a lot to be grateful for.”
“I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.”
“If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.”
“There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.”