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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

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Annie Lennox
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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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.
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I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.
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I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.
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I chose a career in obstetrics and gynecology because there's something about honoring women, honoring the birth process. We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.
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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.
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A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.
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I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.
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I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.
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It's harder to get out of bed when you've failed.
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I have different hats I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.
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You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'
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It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
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When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.
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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.
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I have a lot to be grateful for.
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There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
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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.
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Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.
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I'm passionate about everything, actually. I'm passionate about life.
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