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.
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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'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
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.
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'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.
Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.
Fashion goes round in circles.
I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.
I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.
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'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.
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 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.
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 have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.
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.
It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.
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.
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