Quotes from Toyah Willcox

I'm really muscular because my mother had to teach me how to straighten my own spine. It wasn't good for my relationship with her because she was dictatorial about it, but in the end I was able to disguise what I had.

My parents were incredibly strict. My father went through a stage where he'd line us up every Friday and cane our hands if we'd been naughty. And this was mainly to pull my brother into line. My brother is five years older and my sister's eight years older. He would use a little bamboo cane, which my brother saw most of.

I'd had a strict religious education.

I'm not vegetarian. I eat what I crave, but most of the time I don't crave meat.

I have a very strict lifestyle. It's a vegetarian household and we grow our own produce.

This human body is very much a vehicle that's used to the constraints of time but once the body is old and used up our minds go into an eternal space.

Growing up with dyslexia and struggling in the classroom because of it, I know how infuriating and frustrating it can be to be treated wrongly as though you're of below par intelligence.

When punk started, it wasn't subtle.

I cannot emphasise enough how important exercise is. I have to do at least a three-mile fast walk a day, usually in the afternoon. Movement is incredibly important in helping my body use up my energy.

Acupuncture has made all the difference to my sleep.

I am disproportionately ambitious.

We are all part of a vibrant, energetic life force and my overwhelming belief is that the mind survives outside of the body and it survives and works outside the body.

The NHS is something we should put above everything else.

One man is quite enough for me, I'd find three exhausting!

I am creative with both my limitations and my sense that everything is possible.