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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.