Annie Lennox Quotes

When I first started making music, it was where I went when I couldn't express myself, when I wasn't able to connect with other people, when I couldn't talk about what I was going through.

I was bookish and awkward and wanted a means of expressing the millions of emotions flying around inside me. The piano seemed as good an outlet as any.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

There's so much stuff that you see every day that you want to talk about, but I'm not the type to open up, so the only way I could open up is through music.

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.

When I'm going through something that has a big impact on my life, it's much easier to sing.

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

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.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.