Quotes from Siobhan Fahey

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

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

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.

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 have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

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

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.

Being a woman is really crap.

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

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

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 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.

Fashion goes round in circles.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.