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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. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#certain point #created #creating #momentum #point

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#background #been #being #belongs #community

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#darker #draws #emotion #emotions #expressing

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

#fine #fine thing #gap #helping #into

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#africa #arms #bird #cover #everybody

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. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#artist #being #different #hats #hopefully

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#become #comfortable #creative #creative person #curious

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. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#always #deal #deeper #i #interested

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#always #because #been #considered #going

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#ever #go #hungry #hurt #impulse