Siobhan Fahey Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 consider the Stooges to be pop music.

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

Fashion goes round in circles.

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.

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.

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

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

Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.

You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe back to your own world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own world Because when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell If you can break the spell back in your own world

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) Stay with me

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

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've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.

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

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.

Being a woman is really crap.

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.

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

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

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