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

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.

Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

Me personally, I just wanted to do that to capture These Days.With DAY-lyt.

Scared is what happens when the sacred gets scrambled.

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

For years I have read the morning paper and harrumphed. There's a lot to harrumph about now.

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived.

You should thank the people who bring out the worst in you. Had it not been for them, you would never have come to know of your worst side.