Musician Quotes

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

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 working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

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.