Siobhan Fahey

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Being a woman is really crap.”

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

“The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.”

“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.”

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

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

“Fashion goes round in circles.”

“It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.”

“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.”