Former Eurythmics singer Annie Lennox wasn't exactly reassuring as she talked about the future of her career recently.
Rolling Stone reports that Lennox, while recording her sixth solo album Nostalgia, admitted that the effort might be her "swan song." "But I don't know yet," she added after audible displeasure from an audience at a London Q&A. "Every time I ever made an album with Dave Stewart [in the Eurythmics] I always said, 'That's the last.' And after that, with my own albums, it was, 'That's it! I'm never doing that again.' But I came back to it..."
"I've stopped writing because I'm too happy," she told journalist Neil McCormick. "It's thanks to someone who will remain nameless, but who makes me very happy with life these days. A lot of my writing was cathartic because it was a very helpful way to get certain feelings expressed. Misery is a great catalyst for some extraordinary music but you don't really want to live there 24/7. I'd rather be not successful and happy than be super-successful and absolutely miserable."
Additional comments from Lennox continued to point toward a possible retirement from the limelight. "We live in a celebrity-fixated culture and we live through them," she said. "But what are we following? My name sometimes gets put in the celebrity category and it freaks me out. I've never seen myself that way and I find it diminishing. What I am is a musician and a communicator and there doesn't seem to be a separation of that thing. I want to make something that touches people and makes them feel something. It isn't about... the tsunami of useless stuff about somebody's hair or cellulite."
Nostalgia, out Oct. 21, is Lennox's second album of covers and includes "Georgia On My Mind," "I Put A Spell On You" and "Summertime." Her last album of covers was 2010's Christmas Cornucopia. Lennox and Stewart reunited briefly earlier this year to perform "Fool On The Hill" for a Beatles tribute.
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