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

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

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

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

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