Siobhan Fahey

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I consider the Stooges to be pop music.”

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

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

“I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.”