Quotes By Siobhan Fahey

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?

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

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.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

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 have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

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

There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.

You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.

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

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

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.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.

It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.

Fashion goes round in circles.

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 have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

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

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