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.

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.

Being a woman is really crap.

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

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've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

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.