Being a woman is really crap.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.