Siobhan Fahey Quotes

Fashion goes round in circles.

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

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.

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.

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.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.

You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe Back to your own world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own world 'Cause when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell if you can break the spell Back in your own world.

I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.

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

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.

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