Lennox Quotes

“I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.”

“God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the gaps, he is the ground of all explanation: it is his existence which gives rise to the very possibility of explanation, scientific or otherwise. It is important to stress this because influential authors such as Richard Dawkins will insist on conceiving of God as an explanatory alternative to science – an idea that is nowhere to be found in theological reflection of any depth. Dawkins is therefore tilting at a windmill - dismissing a concept of God that no serious thinker believes in anyway. Such activity is not necessarily to be regarded as a mark of intellectual sophistication.”

“As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.”

“I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.”

“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.”

“Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.”

“The law has no power over heroes.”

“Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.”

“Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.”

“Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.”