Top 150 Annie Lennox Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.”

— Annie Lennox

2. “You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.”

— Annie Lennox

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3. “I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There’s darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you work your way towards it, and you do what it takes to get there.”

— Annie Lennox

4. “Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”

— Annie Lennox

5. “Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.”

— Annie Lennox

6. “Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.”

— Annie Lennox

7. “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.”

— Annie Lennox

8. “Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.”

— Annie Lennox

9. “Please don’t ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don’t have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world’s barking mad. Look, I’m not an expert. I’m just an ordinary person.”

— Annie Lennox

10. “Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we’re born, we live, and we’re going to die. In between, we’ll have joy and we’ll have sadness.”

— Annie Lennox

11. “I have a lot to be grateful for.”

— Annie Lennox

12. “I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?”

— Annie Lennox

13. “The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.”

— Annie Lennox

14. “I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.”

— Annie Lennox

15. “Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.”

— Annie Lennox

16. “I love to make music and stay grounded.”

— Annie Lennox

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

— Annie Lennox

18. “There must be an angel playing with my heart.”

— Annie Lennox

19. “I’m not a saint. I’m not an angel. I’m a human being.”

— Annie Lennox

20. “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.”

— Annie Lennox

21. “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

22. “Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you’re very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.”

— Annie Lennox

23. “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

24. “Fame for fame’s sake is toxic – some people want that, with no boundaries. It’s unhealthy.”

— Annie Lennox

25. “There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn’t have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I’m not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.”

— Annie Lennox

26. “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

27. “Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don’t even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.”

— Annie Lennox

28. “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.”

— Annie Lennox

29. “The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out.”

— Annie Lennox

30. “I’m not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.”

— Annie Lennox

31. “Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.”

— Annie Lennox

32. “When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don’t know what’s around the corner.”

— Annie Lennox

33. “Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn’t have before from the experiences I’ve had.”

— Annie Lennox

34. “I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It’s set up for kings.”

— Annie Lennox

35. “I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I’ve been given. It’s all been earned.”

— Annie Lennox

36. “Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.”

— Annie Lennox

37. “If someone says something unpleasant, I can’t say it doesn’t smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.”

— Annie Lennox

38. “I’ve had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn’t get to me.”

— Annie Lennox

39. “I’m an only child, you know, originally. I’m not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.”

— Annie Lennox

40. “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.”

— Annie Lennox

41. “When I was younger I wish I’d known that what often seemed to be the ‘end of the world’ often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!”

— Annie Lennox

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

— Annie Lennox

43. “The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources – huge disparity.”

— Annie Lennox

44. “I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.”

— Annie Lennox

45. “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

46. “There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won’t.”

— Annie Lennox

47. “I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism – I hate all that.”

— Annie Lennox

48. “You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.”

— Annie Lennox

49. “The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.”

— Annie Lennox

50. “I haven’t lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it’s very beautiful. But I’m a working parent, so I’ve always kept my own life.”

— Annie Lennox