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Siobhan Fahey
British
Musician
About the author
I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Hate
#Girls
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.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Home
#Play
#Punk
I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Music
I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Life
#Mother
#Waste
#Cooking
#Housework
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.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Love
#Music
I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Writing
I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
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.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Songs
#Love
#Old
#Singing
#Holiday
I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Songs
#Right
#Love
#Peace
I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Love
#People
#Sense
#Gay
#Sensibility
Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#People
#Effect
#Depression
Being a woman is really crap.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Being
#Woman
I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Film
Fashion goes round in circles.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Fashion
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Love
#Culture
#Passion
#Music
I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Wife
#History
#Mother
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.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Life
#Depression
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.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#People
#Ugly
#Fame
#Fortune
I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Will
I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Time
#People
#Age
#Music
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.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#People
#Music
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.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Love
#Culture
#Reflection
If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Artist
The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Being
#Revenge
Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Day
#Press
#Company
I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Sound
It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#People
#Word
#Feminism
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.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Life
#Trying
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.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Life
#Years
#Feeling
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Music
#Ritual
No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Woman
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.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Battle
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.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Girls
#Cute
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.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Reason
#Self
#Reality
#Sight
#Depression
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.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Song
You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
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.
Siobhan Fahey,
British
Musician
#Country
#Mother
#Music
#Media