I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought. – Annie Lennox
We all fight over what the label feminism means but for me its about empowerment. Its not about being more powerful than men – its about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. Its about very basic things. Its not a badge like a fashion item. – Annie Lennox
When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty – they were coming from a universal and personal place. – Annie Lennox
The future hasnt 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 Im in. – Annie Lennox
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs. – Harry Connick, Jr.