330 Quotes by Annie Lennox

Dying is easy, it’s living that scares me to death.

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.

There’s always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don’t know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light – there it is! It’s right there.

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.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It’s there to be discovered.

I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I’m so not that woman. I’m passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.

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.

I’m not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.

Fear paralyses you – fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.