330 Quotes by 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 autonomy.

One wouldn’t want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don’t. I have a very different take on life.

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.

I’m a female but I have a masculine side and I’m not going to negate that part of myself.

I’m not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.

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

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.

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

Just having medicine isn’t equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.