Toyah Willcox

“I can't live in a world of dullards. So I think on that level, I'm definitely punk.”

“I think very fast and visually and I have to write down an idea right away or it will be lost forever.”

“I was offered a part in the stage version of 'Calendar Girls,' but the part is so predictable. It just makes me angry when I read the script.”

“I have always had disrupted, broken sleep.”

“When I was young I just regarded not sleeping as a fantastic way to pack more into my days. I always reasoned that life's so short, it seemed crazy to waste it sleeping.”

“I always fly British Airways. I find them to be the most dependable and I need to be on time when I'm travelling for gigs.”

“I turn a lot of jobs down because they are patronising.”

“Remember all those you work with. You never know when you will meet again.”

“If my 20s were a time when the way I looked was my calling card, then it feels as though my 60s will be a reinvention.”

“I am very wealthy and I could nurture a child very well.”

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

“I was every mother's nightmare - I was a hair model from 14, and I started coming home with red, blue, green hair.”

“I hated every minute of my schooldays.”

“My favourite city of all has to be Seattle as it seems to encapsulate everything that is great about both Britain and America.”

“Until I was seven, I was very close to my mother because I was so ill and she had to teach me how to walk and talk. But then she had another child, a little girl called Fleur, who died. When she came home from hospital there was a bit of a distance between us. It was never talked about again.”

“Look and image were very important - there was already incredible pressure to look feminine and sexy but I wanted to look individual and strong. I didn't have any role models except Little Nell from 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.'”

“I have absolutely no sense of my success whatsoever, in fact, I only have a sense of not doing what I intended to do. I don't know who I am.”

“You should never undermine friendship and loyalty.”

“The NHS is something we should put above everything else.”

“I take books on learning to bed - music theory, colour theory - and usually my brain thinks, 'Um, I think I'd rather turn off,' than learn something.”