330 Quotes by Annie Lennox

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found.

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.

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

Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.

At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever it was, sometimes it had me really, really shaking in my shoes, and I decided that I was going to do it no matter what. And, of course, the critic is there, and afterwards, there's this, "Was it good enough? Was it really all I wanted to say?"

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

Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'. Without 'Peace' we cannot survive. Valentine's Day is on the 14 February. Christmas Day is on the 25 December. Peace Day has been established by the United Nations on the 21 September, and the whole world is invited to participate.

I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.