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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

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.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

Being a woman is really crap.

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.

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

Fashion goes round in circles.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

Most of my life Ive had long periods of feeling down and lost. Thats why every five years or so Ive smashed my life to pieces and started again.

Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles - but I've got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That's me.

We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.

I can't contain how enthusiastic I am about working on books for kids.

Happiness is anyone and anything at all thats loved by you.

Ask not what's inside your head but what your head's inside of.