Siobhan Fahey Quotes

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

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.

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.

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.

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 consider the Stooges to be pop music.

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.

Being a woman is really crap.

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.

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'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.

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

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

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

I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.

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

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

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

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

Fashion goes round in circles.

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.

Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.

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.

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

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

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.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.