Quotes by Annie Lennox

About Annie Lennox:

Annie Lennox is a Scottish singer, songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve major international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. With a total of eight Brit Awards, including Best British Female Artist six times, Lennox has won more than any other female artist. She has also been named the "Brits Champion of Champions".
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I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

Annie Lennox

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.

Annie Lennox

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.

Annie Lennox

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 aut...

Annie Lennox

I'm just an ordinary person.

Annie Lennox

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

Annie Lennox

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

Annie Lennox

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

I see myself as a traveller.

Annie Lennox

I've never been a social person.

Annie Lennox

I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

Annie Lennox

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.

Annie Lennox

I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.

Annie Lennox

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

Annie Lennox

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.

Annie Lennox

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.

Annie Lennox

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

Annie Lennox

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

Annie Lennox

Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.

Annie Lennox

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.

Annie Lennox

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

Annie Lennox

Author Bio

  • NameAnnie Lennox
  • DescriptionBritish musician
  • BornDecember 25, 1954
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionSinger
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire