British Quotes

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

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

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

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

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

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

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

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

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

Fashion goes round in circles.

Being a woman is really crap.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

They always win who side with God.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.