I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
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.
I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.
I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.
Being a woman is really crap.
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.
You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.
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 can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
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 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.
I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.
I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.
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.
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.
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.
