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.

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

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.

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