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. Annie Lennox More Quotes by Annie Lennox More Quotes From Annie Lennox I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly. Annie Lennox mad men watches I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition. Annie Lennox acquisition too-much winning I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs. Annie Lennox views song people I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse. Annie Lennox horse clothes people I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era. Annie Lennox victorian-era victorian eras I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf. Annie Lennox daughter mother thinking I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically. Annie Lennox scotland way thinking I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes. Annie Lennox sometimes people thinking I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can. Annie Lennox role-models trying thinking I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an existential angst that I have felt most of my life and still feel today, to not be overwhelmed by it. Music, in a way, is a great vehicle, a means by which one can express all these somewhat contradictory feelings. Annie Lennox dark mean thinking I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful. Annie Lennox dollars culture reality I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that. Annie Lennox teenager grateful views 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. Annie Lennox clothes memories past We're all born, and if you're going to live to be elderly, you'll have gone through a life journey different than anyone else's. It's unique to you, but you'll have some common themes. Annie Lennox elderly unique journey At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever it was, sometimes it had me really, really shaking in my shoes, and I decided that I was going to do it no matter what. And, of course, the critic is there, and afterwards, there's this, "Was it good enough? Was it really all I wanted to say?" Annie Lennox shoes matter sometimes I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me. Annie Lennox risk color sound As you get older, there will be a new challenge arising. What you thought you'd accomplished once, maybe the goal post has shifted and it's not what you're pursuing anymore, because you're not interested in that anymore, you know? Annie Lennox accomplished goal challenges There's good stuff and bad stuff, but you continue on. I'm not prescriptive - I cannot tell anyone else what to do with their lives, and I'm a deeply flawed individual - but this is it. We're all just living it and... bless us all. Annie Lennox bless individual stuff Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized. Annie Lennox vulnerable mean I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place. Annie Lennox driving want thinking
