Quotes By Siobhan Fahey

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.

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

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

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.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

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.

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.

Being a woman is really crap.

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.

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

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.