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

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

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've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

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

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

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