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.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

[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.

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.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.