Siobhan Fahey Quotes

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.

Fashion goes round in circles.

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.

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'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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Being a woman is really crap.

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

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.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

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

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

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.

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.

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

If this world is wearing thin And you're thinking of escape I'll go anywhere with you Just wrap me up in chains But if you try to go alone Don't think I'll understand Stay with me, stay with me.

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.

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

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.

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

I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together.

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

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

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