Annie Lennox Quotes
(on being private about her life) What did you expect? I`m human; I feel what anybody else feels. 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. 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.
Historically, the image of women in pop music has been so totally ornamental - sexual, but predictably so. It`s hard to tell how far women`s individuality has come in the past twenty years. Certainly, if you look at the pop charts as a measuring stick, you`d think it hasn`t come far at all. But women do feel less like victims now than they did twenty years ago. At heart I`m a feminist, but I`m also a feminist for men. Men should be liberated from the roles that are foisted on them also.
I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
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.
“Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.”
“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.”
