Quotes By Siobhan Fahey

We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.

It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.

Fashion goes round in circles.

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

Being a woman is really crap.

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.