The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.

A family is something very static and hard to escape, so everybody has a certain role over the years, no matter if you like it or not.

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

There's not much that doesn't get me stoked.

A changeable God would be no God.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.