Quotes By Siobhan Fahey

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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.

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

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.

You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

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.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

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.